. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . e-thing to do with a passion for colour. Within more reasonable bounds, in referenceto the Venitians, is the consideration that no colouring is richer, mellower, moreexquisitely tinted than that which belongs to the blue Italian sky over the blueAdriatic, with those merged shades of violet, green, and amber, and that magicalsoft haze which has to do with a moist climate. The two brothers Gentile and Gian or John Bellini, the latter the more famous ofthe two, were the sons of an old Venitian painter, with regard to whom the w
. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . e-thing to do with a passion for colour. Within more reasonable bounds, in referenceto the Venitians, is the consideration that no colouring is richer, mellower, moreexquisitely tinted than that which belongs to the blue Italian sky over the blueAdriatic, with those merged shades of violet, green, and amber, and that magicalsoft haze which has to do with a moist climate. The two brothers Gentile and Gian or John Bellini, the latter the more famous ofthe two, were the sons of an old Venitian painter, with regard to whom the worthyspeech is preserved, that he said it was like the Tuscans for son to beat father, and hehoped, in Gods name, that Giovanni or Gian would outstrip him, and Gentile, theelder, outstrip both. The brothers worked together and were true and affectionatebrothers, encouraging and appreciating each other. Gentile was sent by the Doge at the request of the Sultan—either Mahommed Bajazet II., to Constantinople, where Gentile Bellini painted the portrait of the34.
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