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Giovanni Bellini : the art of contemplation
- Title
- Giovanni Bellini : the art of contemplation / Johannes Grave ; [translation from the German, Cynthia Hall].
- Author
- Grave, Johannes
- Publication
- Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Additional Authors
- Hall, Cynthia
- Description
- 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 38 cm
- Summary
- Following the arc of Bellini's career, from his early devotional paintings to his later, occasionally secular works, this book offers an in-depth appreciation of the Venetian master who dominated the Early Renaissance. Featuring nearly every extant Bellini work, as well as those of his contemporaries, this book brims with gorgeous Renaissance art. Author Johannes Grave focuses on some of the artist's greatest works including Allegoria Sacra, the Brera Pieta, and the altarpiece of San Giobbe-to explore how Bellini excelled in tempera before mastering oil painting. Grave discusses how Bellini's precise lines, his delicate facial expressions, and the subtle effects of light and shadow were used in his religious paintings as well as his portraiture and late mythological depictions. The book examines Bellini's life, including his complex relationships with his father Jacopo, his brother Gentile, and his brother-in-law Andrea Mantegna. It considers the original contexts of Bellini's works, and elucidates the ways in which these paintings were meant to be perceived. It also links Bellini's devotional paintings with the poetic creations of his pupil Giorgione. An important contribution to the scholarship of Renaissance art, this book reaffirms Bellini's status as one of Venice's greatest painters.
- Uniform Title
- Giovanni Bellini. English
- Alternative Title
- Giovanni Bellini.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Contents
- A different way of seeing : Allegoria sacra -- Collective and individual : Giovanni Bellini's beginnings -- Innovation through variation : Bellini's early devotional images -- Productive adaptations : Bellini's reception of Andrea Mantegna and early Netherlandish painting -- The weeping image : The Pietà in the Brera -- A heavenly gathering : Belllini's altarpieces -- Landscapes of meditation : the representation of nature in the religious image -- Time instead of history : Bellini's further development of the devotional image -- Representation : the city of Venice and its elites -- 'Maniera Moderna'? Bellini and the generation of artists around 1500 -- Ambivalences : Bellini's late profane paintings.
- Call Number
- JQH 18-25
- ISBN
- 3791383973
- 9783791383972
- OCLC
- 1017577156
- Author
- Grave, Johannes, author.
- Title
- Giovanni Bellini : the art of contemplation / Johannes Grave ; [translation from the German, Cynthia Hall].
- Publisher
- Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- Translated from the German.
- Added Author
- Hall, Cynthia, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JQH 18-25