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Lives of Giovanni Bellini (Paperback)
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Lives of Giovanni Bellini (Paperback)
Series: Lives of the Artists
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Born into the most influential artistic family in Venice, he
received his training in the studio of his father, Jacopo, along
with his brother, Gentile, and through a long and fruitful career
played a leading role in advancing the stylistic transformations of
the Italian Renaissance. His workshop, one of the most important of
the period, counted Giorgione and Titian among its pupils.
Contemporary descriptions of his life, however, are few. The first
account, by Vasari, which also portrays the family artistic
enterprise, was written decades after his death and offers but
qualified praise. A century later Carlo Ridolfi, who sought to
rectify Vasari's emphasis on Florentine painters, provides a fuller
portrayal of Bellini in his 1648 work The Marvels of Art, or the
Lives of the Famous Painters of Venice and Its State. These two
narratives are complemented by the correspondence of Isabella
d'Este, one of the leading art patrons of the Renaissance, and the
prominent man of letters Pietro Bembo, which appear here in English
for the first time. An introduction by the scholar Davide
Gasparotto provides an illuminating discussion of these texts and
Bellini's vast oeuvre. The historical texts are enhanced by a
generous selection of colour illustrations.
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