Gentile Bellini

See also: Bellini

Gentile Bellini is a painter of the Venetian school, born a little front 1428 with Venice, probably the elder one of two wire. He probably dies in 1507.

Contrary to his/her brother Giovanni, it is not in the invention that it gives following his work but in descriptive realism. He paints with Venice the portraits of Doge S.

The portrait of Mahomet II signed by Bellini recalls that it went to Constantinople in 1479, when peace is signed between Venice and the Turks. Once returned in its birthplace, it puts to the test its talent of portraitist in large fabrics with many characters who are worth the celebrity later to him. After the fire of 1577 which destroys all the historical compositions that it had painted with his Giovanni brother with the Palais of the Doges, one kept the cycle which decorated Scuola di San Giovanni Envangelista. Of these paintings, representing the miracles operated by a relic of the Cross, three are of Gentile, the others of Giovanni Mansueti, Lazzaro Bastiani and Carpaccio. Many details of the Venetian life are illustrated there with an exactitude which does not exclude poetry. In the first years of the 16th century, Gentile receives the ordering of a whole of this kind intended for the Scuola Grande di San Marco . To evoke the East in the Preaching of Marc Saint in Alexandria, it uses its notebooks of drawings brought back of its voyage in Constantinople.

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Giorgio Vasari quotes it and gives its biography in Quickly the .

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Gentile Bellini in Artcyclopedia

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