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(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Giovanni Bellini
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Giovanni Bellini

Venice, about 1431-1436 - 1516, Venice
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BiographyGiovanni was a leading master in 15th-century Venice. He expanded his workshop after ca. 1490, training and influencing his numerous shop-hands, imitators (generically known as Belliniani), and several major Venetian painters of the next generation. Giovanni absorbed a wide range of artistic influences, both from within the Venetian tradition and from outside. He inspired a technical revolution in the art of painting, gradually abandoning the traditional Italian medium, egg tempera, to instead use the technique of oil painting that had been pioneered in the Netherlands. Italian painter.
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Last Updated8/7/24