Iacopo Bellini

See also: Bellini

Iacopo Bellini (or Jacopo Bellini ) is a painter Italy N born in 1400 with Venice and died in 1470. He is the father of a dynasty of artists, of which Giovanni Bellini and Gentile Bellini.

Its representations of the Virgin to the expression engraves and with the sumptuous color keep something of the Byzantine tradition, still well presents to Venice in first half of the 15th century. Other tables which are allotted to him, are attached to the Gothic style and the art of Gentile da Fabriano, which came to Venice to decorate the palate with the Doges. But Iacopo especially worked with great decorative paintings now disappeared. The spirit of the Rebirth revealed with Iacopo by the artists florentins, inspires a studied construction of its tables and the deployment of noble architectures. But one also sees there expressing the taste, determining for the Venetian school, of the landscape and the familiar detail.

Principal works

the Virgin of humility adored by a prince of the House of Este 1440 (estimate), Museum of Louvre, Paris
Madonna and child blessing 1440 (estimate), Gallery dell' Accademia of Venice
Madonna and chérubin Towards 1450, Gallery dell' Accademia of Venice
St Jean the Evangelist St Pierre , Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
St Jean Baptist in prayer , Museum of Louvre, Paris.

Internal bonds

Giorgio Vasari quotes it and gives its biography in Quickly the

External bonds

Iacopo Bellini in Artcyclopedia

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