Sacred Allegory (detail), about 1500–1504, Giovanni Bellini, tempera (?) and oil on wood panel. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo credit: Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali / Art Resource, NY
Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice
GETTY CENTER
North Pavilion, Plaza Level
This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience masterpieces by Giovanni Bellini (about 1435–1516), one of the greatest Venetian painters of the Renaissance. Landscape played a prominent role throughout his long and illustrious career, complementing his religious subject matter and enhancing the meditational nature of paintings intended for the private devotion of highly sophisticated patrons. Distinguished by a refined sensitivity to the natural world, Bellini transformed traditional symbolic motifs into convincing yet poetic depictions of the Venetian mainland, marking the beginning of a new chapter in the history of European painting.
