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	(3) Giovanni Bellini [Giambellino] (b ?1431–6; d Venice, 29 Nov 1516). Painter and draughtsman, son of (1) Jacopo Bellini. Although the professional needs of his family background may have encouraged him to specialize at an early date in devotional painting, by the 1480s he had become a leading master in all types of painting practised in 15th-century Venice. Later, towards the end of his long life, he added the new genres of mythological painting and secular allegory to his repertory of subject-matter. His increasing dominance of Venetian art led to an enormous expansion of his workshop after c. 1490; and this provided the training-ground not only for his numerous shop-hands and imitators (generically known as Belliniani) but probably also for a number of major Venetian painters of the next generation. Throughout his career, Giovanni showed an extraordinary capacity for absorbing a wide range of artistic influences, both from within Venetian tradition and from outside. He also oversaw a technical revolution in the art of painting, involving the gradual abandonment of the traditional Italian use of egg tempera in favour of the technique of oil painting pioneered in the Netherlands. It was thanks to Giovanni Bellini that the Venetian school of painting was transformed during the later 15th century from one mainly of local significance to one with an international reputation. He thus set the stage for the triumphs of Venetian painting in the 16th century and for the central contribution that Venice was to make to the history of European art. Part of the Bellini family
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	Bellini, Giovanni Bellini Bellini: (1) Jacopo Bellini, §I, 2: Drawings Bergamo, §2: Art life and organization Bissolo, Francesco Italy, §III, 3(ii)(b): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Other centres Italy, §III, 4(iii): High Renaissance and Mannerist painting, c 1500–c 1600: Venice Venice, §II, 3(i): Art life and organization, 1454–1599: Painting assistants Lattanzio da Rimini Mansueti, Giovanni Marconi, Rocco Marziale, Marco Santacroce, Girolamo da Vendramin, Andrea attributions Bellini: (2) Gentile Bellini, §2: 1479 and after Bonsignori, Francesco Bourbon, §II: (2) Elizabeth, Queen of Spain Hume, Abraham Skippe, John collaboration Bellini: (2) Gentile Bellini, §1: Before 1479 Carpaccio: (1) Vittore Carpaccio, §1: Life and commissions Caselli, Cristoforo Destre, Vincenzo dalle Lauro Padovano Vivarini: (3) Alvise Vivarini copies Moroni, Giovanni Battista, §2: Mature work, c 1561 and after drawings Bellini: (1) Jacopo Bellini, §II, 2: Problems of collaboration Presentation drawing groups and movements Renaissance, §3: Renaissance, 1450–c 1500 Renaissance, §4(iii)(a): High Renaissance: Painting and graphic art in Italy methods Canvas, §2: History and use Underdrawing paintings Venice, §IV, 6(ii): Doge’s Palace: Painting and decoration altarpieces Altarpiece, §2(ii)(b): Forms and development: c 1400– c 1600 Bellini: (3) Giovanni Bellini, §II, 2: Style and development, c 1470–c 1500 Frame, §II, 3(i): Italian Early Renaissance Frame, §II, 3(ii): Italian Renaissance: Aedicular frames Venice, §IV, 3: SS Giovanni e Paolo Venice, §IV, 4: S Maria Gloriosa dei Frari landscape Landscape painting, §II, 3: 15th century mythological Equicola, Mario portraits Bellini: (3) Giovanni Bellini, §I, 3: Narrative paintings religious Andachtsbild Bellini: (3) Giovanni Bellini, §II, 1: Style and development, c 1460–c 1470 Bellini: (3) Giovanni Bellini, §II, 3: Style and development, c 1500–1516 Bellini: (3) Giovanni Bellini, §III, 1: Technique Belliniano, Vittore Dominican Order, §II, 2: Iconography: Other Dominican saints Pietà, §3(ii): Southern Europe Toledo, §IV: Cathedral Venice, §V, 3: Scuola Grande di S Marco sacra conversazione Sacra conversazione patrons and collectors Contarini Italy, §XIII, 2: Collecting and dealing: 18th–20th centuries Scotland, §XIII: Collecting and dealing Albarelli, Giovanni Caliari, Paolo (ii) Alfonso I, 3rd Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (reg 1505-34) Este (i): (8) Alfonso I d’Este Ferrara, §2: Art life and organization Humanism, §3: Humanism and the visual arts Studiolo Bagatti Valsecchi family Bagatti Valsecchi Barbarigo, Agostino, Doge of Venice (reg 1486-1501) Barbarigo Bardini, Stefano Bardini, Stefano Barker, Alexander Barker, Alexander Beckford, William (1760-1844) Beckford, William Benson, R(obert) H(enry) Benson, R. H. Bossi, Giuseppe Bossi, Giuseppe Buchanan, William Buchanan, William Burrell, William (1861-1958) Burrell William Scotland, §XIV, 2: Museums: Glasgow Campbell, John, 1st Baron Cawdor (1755-1821) Campbell, John, 1st Baron Cawdor Camuccini, Pietro Camuccini: (1) Pietro Camuccini Caraman, Duc de Caraman Catena, Vincenzo Catena, Vincenzo Contarini, Taddeo Contarini: (1) Taddeo Contarini Giorgione, §I, 3: Interpretation of meaning Davenport Bromley, Walter Davenport Bromley,Walter Eastlake, Charles Lock (1793-1865) Eastlake: (1) Charles Lock Eastlake Frick, Henry Clay Douglas, Robert Langton Holloway, Thomas Holloway, Thomas Howard (ii), Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle Howard (ii): (3) Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle Isabella d'Este, Marchesa di Mantua (1474-1539) Art market, §I: Before 1500 Josephine, Empress of the French (1763-1814) Bonaparte: (2) Josephine Leuchtenberg, Eugène de Beauharnais, Duc de Beauharnais Eugène de Leyland, F(rederick) R(ichard) Leyland, F. R. List, Herbert List, Herbert Mond, Ludwig Mond: (1) Ludwig Mond Museu de Arte de São Paulo Brazil, §XI: Museums Percy, Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland England, §XIII, 3(i): Trends in collecting, after 1840 Percy: (4) Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland Pourtalès-Gorgier, James-Alexandre, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier, James-Alexandre Reynolds, Joshua Reynolds, Joshua, §IV: Collecting and dealing Robien, Christophe-Paul Gautron, Marquis de Robien, Christophe-Paul Gautron Solly, Edward Solly, Edward Tallard, Marie-Joseph d'Hostun, Duc de Tallard, Marie-Joseph d’Hostun Turner, Dawson Turner, Dawson William II, King of the Netherlands (reg 1840-49) Orange Nassau: (10) William II, King of the Netherlands pupils Cima da Conegliano(, Giovanni Battista) Cima da Conegliano, §1: Life and work Gambello, Vittore Gambello: (2) Vittore Gambello Jacopo (di Paride Parisati) da Montagnana Jacopo da Montagnana Licinio, Bernardino Licinio: (1) Bernardino Licinio Montagna, Bartolomeo Montagna: (1) Bartolomeo Montagna, §1(i): Early work, to c 1485 Pennacchi, Pier Maria Pennacchi, Pier Maria Previtali, Andrea Previtali, Andrea Rondinelli, Niccolò Rondinelli, Niccolò Sebastiano del Piombo Sebastiano del Piombo, §1(i): Venice, to 1510 Titian Titian, §I, 1: Training and early work, to 1515 Vecellio, Francesco Vecellio: (1) Francesco Vecellio reproductive prints by others Reproduction of works of art, §2(iii): 19th century restorations by others Pellicioli, Mauro Ruhemann, Helmuth workshop Madonnero

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