Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice - Hardcover

Gasparotto, Davide

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606065319 ISBN 13: 9781606065310

Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2017

Synopsis

Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being “the best in painting,” Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430– 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. Drawing from a selection of masterpieces that span Bellini's long and successful career, this exhibition catalogue focuses on the main function of landscape in his oeuvre: to enhance the meditational nature of paintings intended for the private devotion of intellectually sophisticated, elite patrons. The subtle doctrinal content of Bellini’s work—the isolated crucifix in a landscape, the “sacred conversation,” the image of Saint Jerome in the wilderness—is always infused with his instinct for natural representation, resulting in extremely personal interpretations of religious subjects immersed in landscapes where the real and the symbolic are inextricably intertwined.

This volume includes a biography of the artist, essays by leading authorities in the field explicating the themes of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s exhibition, and detailed discussions and glorious reproductions of the twelve works in the show, including their history and provenance, function, iconography, chronology, and style. 

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About the Author

Davide Gasparotto is senior curator in the Department of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. 
 

Edition details

• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606065319
• ISBN 13: 9781606065310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148