Giovanni Bellini is considered one of the most important figures in Italian Renaissance art. This text considers the artist's work both stylistically and in full cultural and historical context.
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The primacy of Giovanni Bellini in the history of Venetian Renaissance painting is indisputable. In an exquisite series of chronologically ordered thematic essays, Goffen scrutinizes Bellini's oeuvre in terms of private and public religious subjects, portraiture, and humanistic and allegorical content. Particularly impressive is the author's capacity to evoke the paintings' formal and emotive nuances along with convincing and complementary readings of their iconographic meaning. While making us acutely aware of the social context for which these works were created, it is nevertheless the masterful articulation of Bellini's chromatic explorations of nature and mood that is this volume's crowning contribution. This amply documented, handsomely produced, and sumptuously illustrated opus is now the essential scholarly meditation on the master.
- Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This is a quite a good book on the art of Giovanni Bellini; it has many colored images and the text is acceptable but somehow not very captivating. As many art books, it has some idiosyncrasies - for example, it discusses in detail the Feast of the Gods picture without the image; and as a rule, all images in the book do not show the year of the picture; one must look at the end in the Indexes where pictures are grouped by location before the alphabetical name. This makes it much more difficult to trace the development of this artist.
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degli alberetti, onomastic saint, gold striations, lost altarpiece, ducal portraits, poplar panel, private devotional images, pittura veneziana, votive picture, predella panel, titular saint, dating circa, sacra conversazione, funerary chapel, lost portrait, original citizens, ducal chapel, atmospheric light, dated circa, partial figure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Giovanni Bellini, San Giobbe, San Marco, New York, Ducal Palace, Virgin Mary, Beni Artistici, Feast of the Gods, San Zaccaria, Coronation of the Virgin, Saint Francis, Saint Jerome, San Giovanni Crisostomo, Art Resource, Christ Child, National Gallery, Saint John, Giacomelli Fotografia, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Public Devotion, Jacopo Bellini, Osvaldo Böhm, Peter Martyr, Davis Madonna New!
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degli alberetti, onomastic saint, gold striations, lost altarpiece, ducal portraits, poplar panel, private devotional images, pittura veneziana, votive picture, predella panel, titular saint, dating circa, sacra conversazione, funerary chapel, lost portrait, original citizens, ducal chapel, atmospheric light, dated circa, partial figure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Giovanni Bellini, San Giobbe, San Marco, New York, Ducal Palace, Virgin Mary, Beni Artistici, Feast of the Gods, San Zaccaria, Coronation of the Virgin, Saint Francis, Saint Jerome, San Giovanni Crisostomo, Art Resource, Christ Child, National Gallery, Saint John, Giacomelli Fotografia, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Public Devotion, Jacopo Bellini, Osvaldo Böhm, Peter Martyr, Davis Madonna New!
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- The Earlier Italian Schools (National Gallery (Great Britain)//National Gallery Catalogues) by Martin Davies on 9 pages
- Giovanni Bellini. by Giles. Robertson on 8 pages
- Giovanni Bellini (Painters Series) by Julia Davis on 7 pages
- The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol. 1 by Jacobus de Voragine on 4 pages
- On Painting (Penguin Classics) by Leon Battista Alberti in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance by Katherine Crawford Luber in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire by Garry Wills on page 67, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Venice: Lion City- The Religion of Empire by Garry Wills on page 67, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Key Monuments of the Italian Renaissance (Icon Edition) by Laurie Schneider Adams on page 185, page 186, and Back Matter
- The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello by Margaret L. King in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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