Format:
147 Seiten
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ISBN:
9781606065310
Content:
Giovanni Bellini and landscape / Davide Gasparotto -- Poetry and painting : Saint Jerome in the wilderness / Hans Belting -- The life of Giovanni Bellini / Daniel Wallace Maze
Content:
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.
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 131-143 und Index
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Letzte Seite: "This publication accompanies the exhibition Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from October 10, 2017, to January 14, 2018. The exhibition was organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum ..."
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Bellini, Giovanni 1430-1516
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Gasparotto, Davide
Author information:
Christiansen, Keith 1947-
Author information:
Bellini, Giovanni 1430-1516
Author information:
Belting, Hans 1935-2023
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