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About Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (1424/35–1516) was one of the most influential Venetian artists. Giovanni lived and worked in Venice all his life and is celebrated for his pioneering portrayal of natural light. He trained with his brother, Gentile, in the workshop of their father, the painter Jacopo Bellini. During the first decades of his career, Giovanni contributed to large-scale works in collaboration with his father and brother. By mid-1460s, he ran a large workshop that produced altarpieces, portraits, and pictures for private devotion. History paintings and mythological scenes would follow in the artist’s later career. While focusing on an individual or group of figures, Bellini’s paintings also increasingly emphasized the landscape and profited from the application of oil paint, which came to replace tempera in much of his work.