Giovanni Bellini’s “St. Francis in the Desert” is regarded by many as the most beautiful painting in America. I’m with the many — although I reserve the right to nominate another ...

Giovanni Bellini: The Art of Contemplation (2018) by Johannes Grave “In this magnificently illustrated volume, Johannes Grave approaches the work of Giovanni Bellini from a fresh perspective.

Mantegna was a stickler for perspective who admired Greco-Roman art and the Florentine sculptor Donatello. Their influence is seen in Bellini’s Saint Justine (1475, Museo Bagatti Balsecchi, Milan).

Giorgione’s Three Philosophers traveled some 4,220 miles from Vienna to be reunited with Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert in New York after more than four centuries on different ...

Sibling rivalry can, as in the case of the Renaissance painters Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna, become an inspiration, which leads to greater things.They were brothers by marriage ...

The Bellini dynasty was the ideal 15th-century artistic unit – working collaboratively for the greater good of the family. Initially, however, it was Gentile who was seen as the most talented of the ...

The Frick, with these not-to-miss treasures by Bellini and Giorgione, manages to get at the origins of our art-watching obsession. By Blake Gopnik On May 20, 1964, on a hilltop in New Jersey, an ...