Comprises papers presented at the Bellini sessions of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America held in Venice. "A collection of fifteen essays on the Ventian painter Giovanni Bellini, one of the most innovative and influential artists of the Italian Renaissance"--Back cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317) and index.
Contents:
Preface / Carolyn C. Wilson -- Introduction: Giovanni Bellini, an art 'more Human and more divine' / Carolyn C. Wilson -- Giovanni Bellini's Iris and Autopsia's Role / Colin Eisler -- An inconvenient text: the Supplementum chronicarum as a source for information about Gentile and Giovanni Bellini / Amy N. Worthen -- Vesting the body of Christ / Paul Hills -- 'Qualche lontani': distance and transcendence in the art of Giovanni Bellini / Brigit Blass-Simmen -- 'Finito et ricercato mirabilmente'. Per nuovi contributi sul San Francesco nel deserto di Giovanni Bellini, ora nella Frick Collection di New York / Rosella Lauber -- 'Per lo quale ennallumini la nocte'. Il verbasco fiorito del San Francesco che riceve le stimmate di Giovanni Bellini alla Frick Collection ed altri appunti di storia naturale / Mauro Di Vito -- Giovanni Bellini, Antonello da Messina, and the 'signs of men's character' / Elizabeth Perkins -- A new interpretation of Jacometto's 'most perfect work': parallels in portraits by Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci / Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli -- A contribution to the study of Giovanni Bellini's drawings and underdrawings / Karolina Zgraja -- A portrait of Gabriele Veneto and some reflections on Giovanni Bellini's portraiture around 1500 / Antonio Mazzotta -- Giovanni Bellini's private devotional images: a boom around 1500 / Catarina Schmidt Arcangeli -- 'Apparo i primi principi da Giovan Bellino allora vecchio'. Questioni aperte sulla formazione di Sebastiano / Costanza Barbieri -- Poetry in motion: Bellini, Titian, and the all'antica Relief / Beverly Louise Brown -- Always a challenge: Bellini, Titian, and some portraits of women / Patricia Meilman -- The reception of Giovanni Bellini in Britain, up to c. 1900 / Peter Humfrey.
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