Giovanni Bellini : the art of contemplation / Johannes Grave ; [translation from the German, Cynthia Hall].

Following the arc of Bellini's career, from his early devotional paintings to his later, occasionally secular works, this book offers an in-depth appreciation of the Venetian master who dominated the Early Renaissance. Featuring nearly every extant Bellini work, as well as those of his contemporarie...

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Uniform Title:Giovanni Bellini. English
Main Author: Grave, Johannes (Author)
Other Authors: Hall, Cynthia (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Language and/or Writing System:
Translated from the German.
Published: Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2018]
Subjects:
Bellini, Giovanni, > 1426?-1516 > Criticism and interpretation.
Bellini, Giovanni, > 1426?-1516.
Painting, Italian.
Painting, Italian > Catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogs.
Genre:
Catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 38 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A different way of seeing : Allegoria sacra
  • Collective and individual : Giovanni Bellini's beginnings
  • Innovation through variation : Bellini's early devotional images
  • Productive adaptations : Bellini's reception of Andrea Mantegna and early Netherlandish painting
  • The weeping image : The Pietà in the Brera
  • A heavenly gathering : Belllini's altarpieces
  • Landscapes of meditation : the representation of nature in the religious image
  • Time instead of history : Bellini's further development of the devotional image
  • Representation : the city of Venice and its elites
  • 'Maniera Moderna'? Bellini and the generation of artists around 1500
  • Ambivalences : Bellini's late profane paintings.