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Giovanni Bellini - Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice (Hardcover)
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Giovanni Bellini - Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice (Hardcover)
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Praised by Albrecht Du rer as being "the best in painting,"
Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430-1516) is unquestionably the supreme
Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest
Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence
unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. Drawing from a
selection of masterpieces that span Bellini's long and successful
career, this exhibition catalogue focuses on the main function of
landscape in his oeuvre: to enhance the meditational nature of
paintings intended for the private devotion of intellectually
sophisticated, elite patrons. The subtle doctrinal content of
Bellini's work-the isolated crucifix in a landscape, the "sacred
conversation," the image of Saint Jerome in the wilderness-is
always infused with his instinct for natural representation,
resulting in extremely personal interpretations of religious
subjects immersed in landscapes where the real and the symbolic are
inextricably intertwined.This volume includes a biography of the
artist,essays by leading authorities in the field explicating
thethemes of the J. Paul Getty Museum's exhibition, anddetailed
discussions and glorious reproductions of the twelve works in the
exhibition, including their history and provenance, function,
iconography, chronology, and style.
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