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Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice

Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice

$35.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Davide Gasparotto 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…