Giovanni Bellini

By Grace Walsh

Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516), was a Venetian painter, is probably the best known of the Bellini family.

The type of art he painted was Religious.

He used a lot of colour and atmosphere in oil painting.

His father was Jacopo Bellini and his brother was Gentile Bellini.

Giovanni also had a sister Niccolsa who married Andrea Mantegain. Andrea was also a Renaissance painter.

He is considered to have changed the way of Venetian painting, making it a more "sensuous and colouristic style".

His most famous pupils were Giorgione and Titian.

PaintingsHere are his best known paintings.

But a while after his death most of his bestest works were destroyed in a church fire in 1577.

Allegory

Saint George from The Pala Pesa

Transfiguration

Madonna and Child - Madonna Frizzoni

Madonna and Child With Saint Jerome

Resurrection of Christ

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Agony In The Garden