Giovanni Bellini was initially taught by his father Jacopo Bellini whose icon-like method and manner influenced his early work. When Giovanni?s sister Nicosia married Andrea Mantegna in 1453, close relations between Venice and Padua were established, and Giovanni began to explore the physical and special representation of the Early Renaissance. Under Mantegna?s influence his style assumed temporarily a certain calligraphic precision: Transfiguration (c 1460).
c.1450-55. Tempera on panel. 82x62 cm. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy.
c.1455-60. Wood panel, 52 x 42 cm. Academia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy. Read Note.
c.1455-60. Tempera on panel. 54.5x30 cm. Civico Museo Correr, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c.1455-60. Detail. c. 1455-60. Tempera on panel. Civico Museo Correr, Venice, Italy.
c.1460. Tempera on wood. 134 x 68 cm. Civico Museo Correr, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c.1460. Tempera on wood. 80x105 cm. Cverini-Stampagla Gallery, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c.1460. Tempera on wood. 80x105 cm. Cverini-Stampagla Gallery, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c.1460. Tempera on panel. 74x50 cm. Civico Museo Correr, Venice, Italy.
c.1460. Tempera on wood. 58x46 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
c. 1464-68. The upper section shows the Annunciation, Dead Christ Between Two Angels. The predella shows the Miracles of St. Vincent Ferrar. Tempera on panel. Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy.
c. 1464-68. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1464-68. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy.
c. 1464-68. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1464-68. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1464-68. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1464-68. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy.
c. 1464-68. Panel of the predella of St. Vincent Ferrar Polyptych. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1464-68. Panel of the predella of St. Vincent Ferrar Polyptych. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1464-68. Panel of the predella of St. Vincent Ferrar Polyptych. Tempera on panel. Church of SS.Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy. Read Note.
c.1464-68. Tempera on panel. Diameter 28 cm. Museo Civico, Pesaro, Italy. Read Note.
Giovanni Bellini. by G. Robertson. Oxford. 1968.
Giovanni Bellini. Old Italian Masters. by V. Lazarev. Moscow 1972. (in Russian)
The Art of the Italian Renaissance. Architecture. Sculpture. Painting. Drawing. Könemann. 1995.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999. (in Russian)
Venetian Painting in the Fifteenth Century: Jacopo, Gentile and Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna by Otto Pacht, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka, Michael Pacht. Harvey Miller, 2003.
Giovanni Bellini (Artist's Library, No. 2.) by Roger Eliot Fry. Ursus Press, 1995.
Giovanni Bellini by Rona Goffen. Yale University Press, 1989.
Giovanni Bellini by Anchise Tempestini. Gallimard, 2000.
The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art) by Peter Humfrey. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting by David Alan Brown, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden. Yale University Press, 2006.