•Bellini's birth is usually placed in the 1430’s
•Recorded as a painter before 1460 and painted until his death in 1516
•Earliest independent works are mostly small scale panels used for private devotion
•calm dignity and spiritual depth
•Early works used pearly pale flesh tones, gray-blues, and shades of rose
•Color warms and deepens with the use of oil in later work and the sea light effect increases
•The Venetian school of painting gained international significance in the later 15th century
Madonna and Child
•C. 1460-65, panel, 28 ½” x 18 ¼”
•Grave, pensive- typical of early Madonnas
•Sleeping Christ meant as a reminder of his crucifixion
•Sea light of Venice used to, reflected from canals and palaces
Pieta
•C.1467-70, panel, 33 ¼” x 42”
•Mary and John the Evangelist hold up the dead Christ for meditation
•Intense drama and emotion
•Blood in Jesus’ wounds is most intense color
•Bottom inscription: “When these swelling eyes evoke groans, this work of Giovanni Bellini could shed tears”
-Allie
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