* ART JOURNAL: Titian, rivals battle for market share in Louvre show Sep 23, 2009
His teacher, Giovanni Bellini, had transformed Venice from an artistic backwater to a beacon of the avant-garde. His use of oil instead of tempera and of color as an element of composition became a trademark of the Venetian school. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Blue ribbon for the curator, too Aug 16, 2009
Instead, audiences were treated to an exhibition devoted exclusively to Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese - three of the greatest painters of all time - along with two works from the workshop and circle of Titian s teacher, Giovanni Bellini, to help kick off the story. Ilchman says the Louvre will add about 40 more pictures for its version of the show. (Boston Globe)
In 'The Bellini Madonna,' a man seeks a painting and salvation May 28, 2009
Based on references found in some old letters, Lynch has spent the last 10 years trying to track down an uncataloged Madonna painting by Venetian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini. It is supposedly the painter's last, luminous Madonna which hasn't been seen in centuries. (Boston Globe)
Casualties of Waugh May 25, 2009
In 1935, Waugh had drubbed a bungling biographer of the pre-Raphaelites, who through her sheer incompetence her many solecisms included confusing Giovanni Bellini the painter with Vincenzo Bellini the composer goaded Waugh to the following conclusion. All these faults occur in the first eight and a half pages ; On the wrapper of the book it is prominently announced that Miss Winwar has been awarded a 1,000 prize, and that this shocking work was selected from over 800 manuscripts. (The American Conservative)
Renaissance Venice's Big Men on Canvas Apr 11, 2009
Born on the mainland in 1488, he was brought to Venice as a child and eventually apprenticed with the most poised and elegant of Venetian masters, the brothers Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. In the Bellini workshop he would have learned to render the many formats of Christian iconography the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion in the serene, harmonious manner that was Bellini's trademark. (Time.com)
