Jacopo Bellini
Videos
Jacopo Bellini was one of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and northern Italy. His sons Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, and his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna, were also famous pa
Virgin of Humility, adored by a prince of the House of Este, 1440. Notice the Pseudo-Kufic mantle hem. Louvre Museum.
Madonna and Child (1450), tempera on wood, 111 x 62 cm, Uffizi, Florence
Madonna and Child Blessing (c.1455), tempera on wood, 94 x 66 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Madonna With Child (c. 1465), oil on panel, 69.2 x 46.9 cm, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Gentile da Fabriano
Videos
Gentile da Fabriano was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic pictorial style. He worked in various places in central Italy, mostly in Tuscany.
Jacopo Bellini
…accommodated linear perspective to the decorative patterns and rich colours of Venetian painting. Born in Venice, Jacopo had probably been a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano, who was then in Venice. In 1411–1412, he was in Foligno, where with Gentile, he worked at the Palazzo Trinci frescoes. In 1423 Bellini was in Florence…
Gentile da Fabriano, in a portrait from the Lives by Giorgio Vasari
Madonna in Glory between Saint Francis and Saint Clare, c. 1390-1395
Trinci Palace, Foligno: Hall of Liberal Arts and Planets, 1410–1411
Adoration of the Magi (1423)