Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters.
His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through the use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Giovanni created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings. His sumptuous coloring and fluent, atmospheric landscapes had a great effect on the Venetian painting school, especially on his pupils Giorgione and Titian.
Giovanni Bellini was probably born in Venice. He was brought up in his father's house, and always lived and worked in the closest fraternal relation with his brother Gentile. Up until the age of nearly thirty we find in his work a depth of religious feeling and human pathos which is his own. His paintings from the early period are all executed in the old tempera method; the scene is softened by a new and beautiful effect of romantic sunrise color.
As is the case with a number of his brother, Gentile's public works of the period, many of Giovanni's great public works are now lost. The still more famous altar-piece painted in tempera for a chapel in the church of S. Giovanni e Paolo, where it perished along with Titian's Peter Martyr and Tintoretto's Crucifixion in the disastrous fire of 1867.
In 1514 Giovanni undertook to paint The Feast of the Gods for the duke Alfonso I of Ferrara, but died in 1516. - wikipedia
Giovanni Emo Movement: High Renaissance Collection: National Gallery of Art (USA) Dimensions: 19 1/4 x 13 7/8 in. (49 x 35 cm) Date: c. 1475-83 Artist: Giovanni Bellini
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Greek Madonna Movement: High Renaissance Date: 1453 Artist: Giovanni Bellini
Madonna with saints Movement: High Renaissance Collection: church of S. Zaccaria, Venice Dimensions: 402 x 273 cm (158 1/2 x 102 1/2 in.) Date: 1505 Artist: Giovanni Bellini
Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan 1501 Movement: High Renaissance Collection: The National Gallery, London, England Dimensions: 17.7 x 24.4 in (45 x 62 cm) Date: 1501-1505 Artist: Giovanni Bellini