Giovanni Bellini is the undisputed father of the Venetian Renaissance, not only for the power and beauty of his oeuvre, but for the influence he exerted over subsequent generations. An exhibition ...

In this extraordinary masterpiece — one of 12 pictures in “Giovanni Bellini ... United States this year. Bellini launched the so-called Golden Age of Venetian painting, characterized by ...

now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington. The painting shows a gathering of Roman ...

Writing a book on Giovanni Bellini that is both fresh in its critical appraisal of the artist and insightful in its approach is far from a simple task. Not only is the great 15th-century Venetian ...

Plus, it’s oft-repeated lore that the bellini, that staple of bottomless brunch, is named for the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini. The bellini was invented at Harry’s Bar in Venice ...

In 1912, Mrs. Bernard Berenson, the wife of the famed Renaissance art scholar, described Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" (c. 1480) as "the most beautiful Bellini in existence ...

One of the exhibition’s paintings is the Frick’s own “St. Francis in the Desert,” a treasure created by the Venetian master Giovanni Bellini sometime around 1475. Francis was known for his ...

A 15th Century painting has gone back on display at a stately home where it was once hung for more than a century. Giovanni Bellini's The Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist was purchased ...