Artist: Giovanni Bellini (1430 - 1516)
Nationality: Italian
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Giovanni Bellini painted in his father Jacopo’s workshop alongside his brother Gentile until 1470. Five years later, Giovanni adopted the new oil painting technique, brought to Venice by Antonello da Messina. His landscapes became softer, brighter, and more expressive. Around this time, Giovanni also began incorporating figures into his scenes. Once Giovanni established his own large workshop, the output included altarpieces, portraits, and Madonnas. He was an influential teacher who not only encouraged his pupils, but learned new ideas from them, notably the young Titian and Giorgione.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Giovanni Bellini - Giovanni Emo c. 1475-1480 oil on panel transfe National Gallery of Art Italian
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Madonna and Child, ca. 1510 Workshop of Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active by 1459, died
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Madonna and Child, probably late 1480s Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active by 1459, died 1516)Oil
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Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, early 1460s Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active by 1459, died
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The Circumcision, 1511 Workshop of Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active by 1459, died 1516)Oil on
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Standing Turkish Man
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Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare, ca. 1510 Giovanni Battista Cima (Italian, Venetian,
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Madonna and Child with Saints Giovanni Bellini and Workshop (Italian, Venetian, active by 1459, died
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Giovanni Bellini - Orpheus c. 1515 oil on panel transfe National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - The Infant Bacchus 1505-1510 oil on panel transfe National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna and Child c. 1480-1485 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Christ Blessing c. 1500 tempera and oil on p Kimbell Art Museum Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna and Child c. 1470-75 tempera and oil on p Kimbell Art Museum Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna and Child 1509 oil on panel The Detroit Institute of Art Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Portrait of a Young Man c. 1490 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna and Child c. 1510 oil on panel High Museum of Art Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Portrait of a Young Man in Red c. 1480 oil and tempera on p National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - St. Francis in the Desert c. 1480 tempera and oil on c The Frick Collection Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna and Child in a Landscape c. 1480-1485 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Portait of Joerg Fugger 1474 Oil on panel Norton Simon Museum Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman c. 1500 oil on panel transfe National Gallery of Art Italian
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Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy, ca. 1513 Giovanni Battista Cima (Italian, Venetian, born
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Giovanni Bellini - Saint Jerome Reading 1505 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Copied after Giovanni Bellini, Italian (Venetian), about 1430-1516 Christ Carrying the Cross 15th - early
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Gentile Bellini, The Doge Leonardo Loredano, circa 1501
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Donor 1505 oil on poplar panel Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Italian
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Giovanni Bellini - An Episode from the Life of Publius Cornelius Scipio after 1506 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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After Giovanni Bellini, Italian (Venetian), about 1430-1516 Saint Jerome 16th century Oil on panel 69.2
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Madonna and Child, probably 1440s Jacopo Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active 1424-70)Tempera on wood, gold ground;
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Portrait of a Man
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San Zaccaria, 1995 Thomas Struth (German, born 1954)Depicted: Venice, ItalyChromogenic print; 181.9 x 230.5 cm
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Francesco Zuccherelli, Charity, after Giovanni di S. Giovanni (?), 1728
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Giovanni Mannozzi (Giovanni da San Giovanni), Recto:Putto Holding Banner
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Giovanni Nanni (Giovanni da Udine), Arabesque, 16th century
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Giovanni Nanni (Giovanni da Udine), Sphinx Studies, 16th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni, The Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 18th century
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Giovanni Bastianini - Portrait of a Lady "Giovanni Albizzi" c. 1860 gesso and polychrome National Gallery of Art Italian
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Francesco Zuccarelli, Women with a Censer, and a Man Addressing Them, after Giovanni di S. Giovanni, 18th century
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Giovanni di Marco (Giovanni dal Ponte), Madonna and Child with Angels, circa 1430
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Artist: Giovanni Di Marco (Giovanni Dal Ponte) Title: The Resurrection of Christ Date: 15th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Gentile Bellini and the East
The first-ever exhibition devoted to Gentile Bellini, Gentile Bellini and the East presents new findings about an important, little known period in Renaissance cultural history and Gentile's role as a painter in the court of the Ottoman sultan Meh...
Fogg Museum, Harvard: Sacred and Profane Visions from Renaissance Venice
Sacred and Profane Visions speaks to the core of the Harvard University Art Museum's unique mission, said James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. The works from our permanent collection, comp...
National Gallery: Titian
Famous throughout his lifetime (about 1487 - 1576), few individuals have had a greater influence on the development of Western painting. This exhibition brings together important loans of many of his most renowned paintings, covering all stages of...
SpecialtyArts.Com, Inc.: Online Discussion Forum: Art and Technology - A Creative Combination For Over Five Hundred Years
Even if you did not hear any of David Hockney’s lectures earlier this year, it’s not too late to find why his controversial theory on art history stirred so much attention among the art establishment. You can now go online, see artwork cited as e...
Frye Art Museum: Gary Faigin: Tradition and Contradiction
Conducting these gentle tensions is the hand of a consummate formalist. The witty contradictions are made possible, even beautiful, because they float on a harmonious grid of symmetry and are...
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art: Giorgio Morandi: The Collectors Eye
Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) is one of Italy's best-known 20th century artists. He was born in Bologna and lived there throughout his life, except for a number of short stays ...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...

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WebMuseum: Bellini, Giovanni
Giovanni Bellini Online
Giovanni Bellini - Olgas Gallery
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Biography
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In Italy Online - Giovanni Bellini
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