Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 26 November 1516)His precise date of death is not recorded, but he was known to have died by 29 November 1516 – PDF was a Venetian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini (who was more highly regarded than Giovanni during his lifetime, although the reverse is true today), and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He was considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through the use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Giovanni created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings. His sumptuous coloring and fluent, atmospheric landscapes had a great effect on the Venetian painting school, especially on his pupils Giorgione and Titian.

List

Early (1450–1465) Madonna and Child (1450–1460) – Tempera on wood, 47 x 31.5 cm, Civico Museo Malaspina, Pavia Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and St. John (1455) – Tempera on wood, 52 x 42 cm, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Crucifixion (c. 1455–1460) – Tempera on wood, 54.5 x 30 cm, Museo Correr, Venice Transfiguration (c. 1455–1460) – Tempera on panel, 134 x 68 cm, Museo Correr, Venice The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist (1460) – Tempera on panel, 86 x 107 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Pietà, c. 1460) – Tempera on panel, 74 x 50 cm, Museo Correr, Venice Pietà (c. 1460) – Tempera on panel, 48 x 38 cm, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan Blessing Christ (c. 1460) – Tempera on wood, 58 x 44 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris The Blood of the Redeemer (c. 1460) – Tempera on panel, 134 x 68 cm, National Gallery, London Madonna and Child (1460–1465) – Tempera on panel, 78 x 54 cm, Civiche Raccolte d'Arte, Milan Madonna and Child Blessing (1460–1464) – Tempera on wood, 79 x 63 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Madonna and Child (Greek Madonna, 1460–1464) – Tempera on wood, 82 x 62 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Madonna and Child (Frizzoni Madonna) (1460–1464) – Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 52 x 42.5 cm, Museo Correr, Venice Presentation at the Temple (1460–1464) – Tempera on wood, 80 x 105 cm, Galleria Querini Stampalia, Venice Virgin and Child (early 1460s) – Tempera and oil on panel, 64.5 x 44.1 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art The Head of St John the Baptist (1464–1468) – Tempera on wood, diameter 28 cm, Musei Civici, Pesaro Polyptych of S. Vincenzo Ferreri (1464–1468) – Tempera on panel, Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice Agony in the Garden (c. 1465) – Tempera on wood, 81 x 127 cm, National Gallery, London Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (c. 1465–1470) – Tempera on wood, 83 x 68 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Maturity (1465–1505) Madonna and Child (Lehman Madonna) (c. 1470) – Tempera on panel, 72 x 46 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Pesaro Altarpiece (c.1471-c.1483) - Oil on panel, 262 x 240 cm, Musei Civici, Pesaro Pietà (1472) – Tempera on canvas, 115 x 317 cm, Doge's Palace, Venice Portrait of Georg Fugger (1474) – Tempera on panel, 26 x 20 cm, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California Dead Christ Supported by Angels (c. 1474) – Tempera on panel, 91 x 131 cm, Pinacoteca Comunale, RiminiGiovanni Bellini's "Pietà" Restored Morgan Library & Museum. Madonna and Child (Lochis Madonna) (1475) – Tempera on panel, 47 x 34 cm, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Enthroned Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child (1475) – Tempera on wood, 120 x 65 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Madonna and Child (c. 1475) – Tempera on panel, 77 x 57 cm, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona Madonna and Child (c. 1475) – Tempera on panel, 75 x 50 cm, Santa Maria dell'Orto, Venice Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child (c. 1475) – Tempera on panel, 77 x 56 cm, Contini Bonacossi Collection, Florence Madonna and Child (1475–1480) – Oil on panel, 78 x 56 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Portrait of a Humanist (1475–1480) – Oil on panel, 35 x 28 cm, Civiche Raccolte d'Arte, Milan Resurrection of Christ (1475–1479) – Oil on panel, 148 x 128 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin St. Francis in Ecstasy (c.1480) – Oil on panel, 124 x 142 cm, Frick Collection, New York, United States St. Jerome in the Desert (c. 1480) – Oil on panel, 145x 114 cm, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Transfiguration of Christ (c. 1480) – Oil on panel, 116 x 154 cm, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples St. Jerome Reading in the Countryside (1480–1485) – Oil on wood, 47 x 34 cm, National Gallery, London Willys Madonna (1480–1490) – Oil on panel, 75 x 59 cm, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil Madonna and Child (Alzano Madonna; c. 1485) – Oil on panel, 83 x 66 cm, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Madonna of Red Angels (c. 1485) – Oil on panel, 77 x 60 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Portrait of a Condottiero – Oil on wood, 51 x 37 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington Portrait of a Young Man in Red (1485–1490) – Oil on panel, 32 x 26 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington Madonna of the Small Trees (1487) – Oil on panel, 74 x 58 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Madonna and Child (1485–1490) – Oil on panel, 88.9 x 71.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York San Giobbe Altarpiece (c. 1487) – Oil on panel, 471 x 258 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Sebastian (c. 1487) – Oil on panel, 84 x 61 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris Frari Triptych (1488) – Oil on panel, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice Barbarigo Altarpiece (1488) – Oil on canvas, 200 x 320 cm, San Pietro Martire, Murano Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula, also named Sacred Conversation, (1490) – Oil on panel, 77 x 104 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid Allegories (c. 1490) – Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Mary Magdalene, also named Sacred Conversation, (c. 1490) – Oil on wood, 58 x 107 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Holy Allegory (c. 1490) – Oil on panel, 73 x 199 cm, Uffizi, Florence Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist (1490–1495) – Oil on canvas, 76.2×58.4 cm, Indianapolis Museum of Art Portrait of a Gentleman (1490–1500) – Oil on wood, 31×26 cm, Uffizi, Florence The Lamentation over the Body of Christ (c. 1500) – Tempera on wood, 76 x 121 cm, Uffizi, Florence Annunciation (Gabriel and Mary) (c. 1500) – Oil on canvas, 224 x 105 cm (each), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1500) – Oil on panel, 32 x 26 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1500) – Oil on wood, 31 x 25 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington Portrait of a Young Senator (1500) – Oil on wood, 31 x 26 cm, Uffizi, Florence Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan (1501) – Oil on panel, 61.5 x 45 cm, National Gallery, London Baptism of Christ (1500–1502) – Oil on canvas, 400 x 263 cm, Santa Corona, Vicenza Head of the Redeemer (1500–1502) – Oil on panel, 33 x 22 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Female Saint (1500–1504) – Oil on panel, 54 x 76 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Crucifixion (1501–1503) – Oil on panel, 81 x 49 cm, The Albert Gallery, Prato The saviour (c. 1502) - Oil on panel, 44 x 33 cm, Royal Academy of San Fernando, Madrid. Sermon of St. Mark in Alexandria (1504–1507) – mostly painted by brother Gentile; Giovanni completed it upon his brothers death; Oil on canvas, 347 x 770 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Final phase (1505–1516) St. Jerome in the Desert (possibly 1505 although some experts date it to 1480s.Mariolina Olivari, Giovanni Bellini, in AA.VV., Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Firenze 2007. ) – Oil on canvas, 49x 39 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1505) – Tempera on panel, 74 x 118 cm, Uffizi Gallery, Florence Sacred Conversation (1505–1510) – Oil on panel, 62 x 83 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid San Zaccaria Altarpiece (1505) – Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 402 x 273 cm, San Zaccaria, Venice Madonna of the Meadow (Madonna del Prato; 1505) – Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 67 x 86 cm, National Gallery, London Pietà (Martinengo Pietà; 1505) – Oil on wood, 65 x 90 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr (1507) – Egg tempera and oil on wood, 99.7 x 165.1 cm, National Gallery, London Madonna and Child with Four Saints and Donor (1507) – Oil on wood, 90 x 145 cm, San Francesco della Vigna, Venice Portrait of the Loredan Family (1507) – Egg tempera on poplar, 134.6 x 207.5 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Continence of Scipio (1507–1508) – Oil on canvas, 74.8 x 35.6 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington The Murder of St. Peter the Martyr (1509) – Oil on panel, 67.3 x 100.4 cm, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London Madonna and Child (1509) – Oil on panel, 80 x 106 cm, Detroit Institute of Art Madonna and Child (1510) – Oil on wood, 85 x 118 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Madonna and Child (c. 1510) – Oil on wood, 50 x 41 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse (1513) – Oil on panel, 300 x 185 cm, S. Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice Feast of the Gods (1514) – Oil on cavas, 170 x 188 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington Young Bacchus (c. 1514) – Oil on wood, 48 x 37 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror (1515) – Oil on canvas, 62 x 79 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Portrait of Teodoro of Urbino (1515) – Oil on canvas, 63 x 49.5 cm, National Gallery, London Deposition (c. 1515) – Oil on canvas, 444 x 312 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Drunkenness of Noah (c. 1515) – Oil on canvas, 103 x 157 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon Madonna and Child with Donor (1502 until 1507) – Oil on canvas, National Museum of Poznań

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