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Bellino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) southwest of Turin and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of Cuneo, on the border with France.
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) [1] was a Venetian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini (who was more highly regarded than Giovanni during his lifetime, although the reverse is true today), and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna.
To the left of the music-playing angel is a small plague, known as a cartellino, where Bellini signed and dated the work: "IOANNES BELLIVUS / MCCCCCV" (Giovanni Bellini, 1505). [ 7 ] The work is set in a large niche, depicting a sacred conversation within an established scheme: the Madonna and Child enthroned, a musician angel on a step and ...
The San Giobbe Altarpiece (Italian: Pala di San Giobbe) is a c. 1487 altarpiece in oils on panel by the Venetian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini.Inspired by a plague outbreak in 1485, this sacra conversazione painting is unique in that it was designed in situ with the surrounding architecture of the church (a first for Bellini), and was one of the largest sacra conversazione paintings at ...
Giovanni Bellini: Self-Portrait, c. 1500. Giovanni Bellini is widely recognized as not only one of the foremost artists of Quattrocento Venice but of the entirety of the Italian Renaissance. [3] Bellini's art often focused on landscapes with devotional subject matter, where his bold usage of color unites subject and form. [2] [3]
On the sides the painter added two more figures, which made the picture rather crowded. Apart from his father, other identifications include the author's self-portrait and Mantegna (or his brother Gentile Bellini ) for the two men on the right; and Nicolosia, sister of Giovanni and Gentile, and wife of Mantegna, together with their mother Anna ...
Giovanni Bellini was born in the mid to late 1420s in Venice, Italy to Nicolo Bellini and Anna Bellini. Nicolo was the half brother of Jacopo Bellini, [2] another influential Renaissance Italian artist. When Nicolo Bellini passed away, Giovanni Bellini was raised by Jacopo Bellini, who greatly influenced his artistic development. [3]