BELLINI, Gentile (b. ca. 1429, Venezia, d. 1507, Venezia) The Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani 1465 Tempera on canvas, 221 x 155 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Gentile Bellini, like his brother Giovanni, after a natural apprenticeship with his father Jacopo, was influenced by the new developments from Tuscany which had a fluorishing centre in Padua led by Donatello. But from his early works onwards he tended towards an intepretation, still mediaeval in spirit, of the classicism of his brother-in-law, Andrea Mantegna. In this work portraying Lorenzo Giustiniani just nine years after his
BELLINI, Gentile (b. ca. 1429, Venezia, d. 1507, Venezia) The Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani 1465 Tempera on canvas, 221 x 155 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Gentile Bellini, like his brother Giovanni, after a natural apprenticeship with his father Jacopo, was influenced by the new developments from Tuscany which had a fluorishing centre in Padua led by Donatello. But from his early works onwards he tended towards an intepretation, still mediaeval in spirit, of the classicism of his brother-in-law, Andrea Mantegna. In this work portraying Lorenzo Giustiniani just nine years after his death (1456), which was originally in the church of Madonna dell'Orto, the search for three-dimensional form is undermined by the evident design and the simplified spatial perspective. Gentile Bellini is an observer who here transcribes with harsh realism the physical features of a man worn out by age and asceticism. --- Keywords: -------------- Author: BELLINI, Gentile Title: The Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani Time-line: 1451-1500 School: Italian Form: painting Type: religious
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