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Facts

Born c.1430 • Venice • Italy
Died 1516 • Venice • Italy
Notable Works “Dead Christ Supported by Angels” • “Doge Leonardo Loredan” • “Portrait of a Young Man” • “Sacred Allegory” • “St. Francis in Ecstasy” • “St. Jerome at His Meditations” • “The Agony in the Garden”
Movement / Style Early Renaissance • Renaissance art • Venetian school • Renaissance
Notable Family Members father Jacopo Bellini • brother Gentile Bellini

Photos

Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Bellini, Giovanni: The Agony in the Garden
Bellini, Giovanni: Enthroned Madonna
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Paris Bordone
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Titian: Venus of Urbino
Titian
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The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
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Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ
Piero della Francesca
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The Birth of the Virgin, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486–90; in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
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Baptism of Christ
Masolino
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The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
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Vittore Carpaccio
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Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
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Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
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Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
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Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
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Fra Angelico: Madonna of Humility
Fra Angelico
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Masaccio: Holy Trinity
Masaccio
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Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna and Child
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Paolo Uccello
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The Last Supper
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Domenico Veneziano: Madonna and Child Enthroned with St. Francis, John the Baptist, St. Zenobius, and St. Lucy
Domenico Veneziano
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Lippi, Filippino: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne Outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem
Filippino Lippi
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Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter

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