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 ...

Giovanni Bellini, “Virgin and Child With Saint John the Baptist and a Female Saint in a Landscape,” circa 1501. (J. Paul Getty Museum) Giovanni Bellini, “Crucifixion,” circa 1495-1500.

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 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 ...