Giovanni Bellini, “Virgin and Child With Saint John the Baptist and a Female Saint in a Landscape,” circa 1501. (J. Paul Getty Museum) Giovanni Bellini, “Crucifixion,” circa 1495-1500.

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.

Their father, Nicoletto Bellini, died while Giovanni was very young, and his upbringing was entrusted to his half-brother, who was more than 30 years old at the time.

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 ...

Writing a book on Giovanni Bellini that is both fresh in its critical appraisal of the artist and insightful in its approach is ... Giovanni Bellini: the Art of Contemplation, Prestel, 287pp ...

Going through “The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini,” a survey of fifteenth-century Italian paintings, sculptures, and drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, visitors are ...

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 ...

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.

Giovanni Bellini is considered the founder of the Venetian School of Painting. He raised Venice to a centre of Renaissance art that rivalled Florence and Rome. A great landscape painter, Bellini ...

A 15th Century painting by Giovanni Bellini is displayed at a stately home near Bristol where it was once hung for 110 years.