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Paris Art Studies – Late Autumn 2008
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 1516)
c. 1430 – late 1460’s - Giovanni Bellini was probably born in Venice son of painter
Jacopo Bellini. He was brought up in his father's house, and always lived and
worked in the close relation with his brother Gentile. His nickname in Venetian
dialect was “Giambellino”. His paintings from the early period are all executed
in the old tempera method.
1453 – the great Padovese painter Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) marries his
sister Nicolosia. Giovanni's early works have often been linked both
compositionally and stylistically to those of his brother-in-law.
1464
– Paints Polyptych of Vincenzo Ferrer for church of Ss
Giovanni e Paolo his firs major altarpiece.
1470 - Giovanni's received his first
appointment to work along with his brother and other artists in the Scuola di San Marco, where among other subjects he was commissioned to
paint a Deluge with Noah's Ark. None of the master's works painted for
the various Venetian scuole (religious confraternities) or for the ducal
palace, have survived.
1471-72 – Paints the Coronation of
the Virgin for Constanzo Sforza lord of Pesaro, his grandest
altarpiece to date with a unified composition, a form of art previously almost
monopolized in Venice by the rival school of the Vivarini.
c. 1473 – Adopts new technique of oil paint introduced to Venice by Antonello
da Messina.
1479-1480 - Named
conservator of the paintings in the great hall of the ducal palace for a fixed annual pension of eighty ducats. Besides repairing and
repainting the works of his predecessors he was commissioned to paint a number
of historical paintings, six or seven in all, depicting scenes from medieval
Venetian history. Much admired in their period they perished in the great fire
of 1577.
late 1480’s – Paints San Giobbe altarpiece for Venetian hospital of St Job.
Beginning of his great late manner.
1501-2 – Paints
14-foot high Baptism for San Corona in Vicenza. It
contains the most beautiful landscape of his late manner.
1502 – 1505 - As grand old master of Venetian painting is
inundated with commissions he is unable to complete. Employs a huge workshop
which produces most of his late Madonnas. Described by Albrecht Dürer the great
German painter and engraver as still the best painter in town during his visit
to Venice of 1506. Greatest, most luminous work of this period is the San
Zaccaria altarpiece (1505.)
1507 – Death of his brother Gentile. Completes Gentile’s Preaching of St
Mark as a condition for inheriting their father’s famous book of drawings.
1513 – After the death of Alvise Viviarini he is sole remaining master in
charge of the paintings of hall of Great Council in ducal palace.
1514 – Undertakes to paint the Feast of the Gods for duke Alfonso I
of Ferrara. The painting unfinished at his death will be completed by Titian.
1516 –Dies at the age of about 85.
Giorgione and Titian paintings from
second lecture:
Giorgione – Il Tramonto c. 1500-01
Giorgione – Laura 1506
Giorgione – La Vecchia c. 1500
Giorgione – Adoration of the
Shepherds 1505-10
Giorgione – Tempesta c. 1505
Giorgione – Sleeping Venus c.1510
Titian – Gupsy Madonna c. 1500-01
Titian – Portrait of Ariosto (?) c.
1510-15
Titian (begun by Bellini) – Feast
of the Gods c. 1514-29
Titian – Concert champetre
c. 1509
Titian – Sacred and Profane Love c.
1515
Titian – Noli me tangere c. 1511-12
Titian – Assumption of the Virgin –
altarpiece of Sta Maria Gloriosa dei Frari 1516-18
Titian – Festival of Venus 1518-19
Titian – Bacchanal of the Adrians
c. 1520
Titian – Bacchus and Ariadne
1522-23
Titian – Federico Gonzaga, duke of
Mantua c. 1523
Titian – Laura Dianti 1527-28 |
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