1. Giovanni Bellini was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father, but now that familial generational relationship is questioned.
16 Facts About Giovanni Bellini
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Giovanni Bellini was considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it toward a more sensuous and colouristic style.
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The painter Jacopo Bellini had long been considered Giovanni's father, but art historian Daniel Wallace Maze claims that Jacopo was his much elder brother.
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Giovanni Bellini lived and worked closely with his brother Gentile.
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In 1470 Giovanni Bellini received his first commission to work with Gentile and other artists in the Scuola di San Marco, where among other subjects he painted a Deluge with Noah's Ark.
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The importance of this commission can be measured by the payment Giovanni Bellini received: he was awarded, first the reversion of a broker's place in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, and afterwards, as a substitute, a fixed annual pension of eighty ducats.
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In 1514 Giovanni Bellini undertook to paint The Feast of the Gods for the duke Alfonso I of Ferrara.
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Giovanni Bellini was interred in the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges.
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In both the artistic and worldly sense, the career of Giovanni Bellini was, on the whole, very prosperous.
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Giovanni Bellini lived to see his own school far outshine that of his rivals, the Vivarini of Murano; he embodied, with growing and maturing power, all the devotional gravity and much of the worldly splendour of the Venice of his time; and he saw his influence propagated by a host of pupils, two of whom at least, Giorgione and Titian, equalled or even surpassed their master.
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Giovanni Bellini outlived Giorgione by five years; Titian, as we have seen, challenged him, claiming an equal place beside his teacher.
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Giovanni Bellini was essential to the development of the Italian Renaissance for his incorporation of aesthetics from Northern Europe.
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Significantly influenced by Antonello da Messina and contemporary trends such as oil painting, Giovanni Bellini introduced the pala, or single-panel altarpieces, to Venetian society with his work Coronation of the Virgin.
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Certain details in this piece, such as breaks in the modelling of figures and shadows, imply that Giovanni Bellini was still working to master the use of oil.
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Giovanni Bellini used the disguised symbolism integral to the Northern Renaissance.
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Giovanni Bellini was able to master the Antonello style of oil painting and surface texture and to use this skill to create a refined and distinctly Venetian approach to painting.