But most of all, his images invite the viewer to look, to a different kind of seeing, in which sensuality and sense merge.” Johannes Grave, Giovanni Bellini: the Art of Contemplation ...

Giovanni Bellini (c1430-1516) isn't famous for acts of violence. The leading Venetian painter of his age, his most characteristic pictures are of saints, Madonnas and wounded Christs, and whether ...

Giovanni Bellini is the undisputed father of the Venetian Renaissance, not only for the power and beauty of his oeuvre, but for the influence he exerted over subsequent generations. An exhibition ...

After he had quit Squarcione (1442), he moved to Venice and joined Gentile and Giovanni Bellini in their father’s ... he celebrated eight classical artists, including Apelles, “most famous of the ...

In 1453 a prodigiously talented young painter from Padua, Andrea Mantegna, married into the renowned Bellini family of painters, from Venice. Thus began an intense creative dialogue between the Paduan ...

Sibling rivalry can, as in the case of the Renaissance painters Giovanni Bellini ... in the galleries offer the most spectacular paintings by each artist. Bellini, using oil paint, which Mantegna ...