Giovanni Bellini: An Introduction

An accessible guide to the foremost figure in Venetian Renaissance painting, tracing Bellini’s personal artistic development within historical context

Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini (c. 1435/40–1516) is considered the most important practitioner of Venetian painting in the latter half of the 15th century. Born into a family of painters, Bellini began studying art at a young age, painting primarily in the prevailing Gothic style of the early Renaissance. As time passed and he ev...