The bellini was invented at Harry’s Bar in Venice, a watering hole favored during every Venice Biennial by the art world, situated just off the city’s grand canal. In 2001, the Italian ...

Giorgione’s Three Philosophers traveled some 4,220 miles from Vienna to be reunited with Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert in New York after more than four ...

Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.

The Frick Madison brings together—for the first time in some 400 years—two Italian masterpieces that once hung in the palazzo of a prominent Venetian.

This 15th-century painting by Giovanni Bellini shows St. Francis in a state of ecstasy. Skip to ... Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post and the author ...