Gentile bellini biography of abraham

  • Italian painter, sculptor and medalist.
  • Giovanni Bellini was born in Venice.
  • He expresses with the freedom and spirit of Japanese design a piety as wild and tender as Jacopo da Todi's, a sweetness of emotion as sincere and dainty.

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    Giovanni Bellini

    Giovanni Bellini was an Early Italian Renaissance artist who lived from circa 1430 to 1516. He is often credited with progressing the Venetian Renaissance art style from the Quattrocento style into that of the High Renaissance. He is regarded as a revolutionary artist, successfully transitioning from tempera paints to oil paints, resulting in rich, bright, and colorful works.

    Bellini was born in Venice, Italy, into a well-known family of artists. His father (or elder brother, research is ongoing) was Jacopo Bellini. Jacopo worked in the late Gothic style and was one of the founders of the Venetian School of the Early Italian Renaissance, bringing Florentine art styles and principles to Venice. Giovanni’s brother was Gentile Bellini, an artist highly regarded in his time, and his brother-in-law was the Italian master, Andrea Mantegna.

    Bellini’s earliest training was as an assistant in Jacopo Bellini’s workshop. From his youth until about 30 years old, h

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    FEATURE Image: Paris Bordon (1500-1571), Fisherman Presenting a Ring to the Doge Gradenigo, 1534, oil on canvas, 370 x 301 cm (145.7 in × 118.5 in), Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice.

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    Venice is one of the great Italian cities for Renaissance art and its wide-ranging influences. Reflecting a city in the sea, its art is characterized bygd light and color. Its most remarkable artistic production was between 1470 and 1590 – the rise, height, and decline of the Italian Renaissance. Developed into a powerful maritime empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, Venice was an independent city state that rivaled all other Italian maritime empires such as Genoa, Pisa, and Amalfi; and lesser-known Ragusa, Ancona, Gaeta and Noli, and until the fall of the Republic in 1797. From its trade routes Venice inherited and fortified the coloristic tradition of Byzantium and the Eastern Mediterranean, Islamic countries and the Far East, Ravenna along t

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    File:Portrait of Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini (Cropped).png

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    TitlePart ofVictoria and Albert museum prints, drawings, & paintings collection Object typepainting Genreportrait Depicted peopleMehmed II Date 1480

    date QS:P571,+1480-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

    Mediumoil on canvas

    medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259

    Dimensions 69.9 × 52.1 cm (27.5 × 20.5 in)Collection

    institution QS:P195,Q180788

    Accession numberPlace of creationConstantinople Object historyExhibition historyNotes

    Deutsch: Das Gemälde entstand anläßlich des Friedensabkommens zwischen der Regierung Venedig und dem Sultan, Bellini hielt sich zu diesem Anlaß in Istanbul auf

    ReferencesSource/PhotographerThe Yorck planerat arbete (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. Permission
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