Giovanni Bellini : the art of contemplation / Johannes Grave ; [translation from the German, Cynthia Hall].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grave, Johannes, author.

Contributor:

Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.

Hall, Cynthia, translator.

Standardized Title:

Giovanni Bellini. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Bellini, Giovanni, 1426?-1516.

Criticism and interpretation.

Bellini, Giovanni, 1426?-1516--Criticism and interpretation.

Bellini, Giovanni.

Painting, Italian.

Painting, Italian--Catalogs.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 38 cm

Place of Publication:

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2018]

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.

ISBN:

3791383973

9783791383972

OCLC:

1017577156