THE RENAISSANCE PAINTERS

GIOVANNI BELLINI 1430-1516
Feast of the Gods
Giovanni Bellini was perhaps, one of the most important painters in Venice in the late 15th Century. He was born in Venice in 1430. He had a brother and a sister.
Giovanni started as an apprentice in his father's workshop. Then later when he mastered the craft of painting, he taught Giorgione and Titian who became greater than their teacher. Giovanni died at the age of 86 in 1516. He was buried in Venice.
In 1577, years after his death, many of his works were destroyed in a church fire.
Some of his greatest master pieces were religious, full of harmony, light and mood. He also brought realism into his landscape paintings.
Bellini painted several famous pictures. Two of those pictures were The Agony in the Garden and The Crucifixion. He also painted The Virgin and Child with Two Saints and the Lamentation Over the Body of Christ. Two more paintings were The Feast of Gods and an altar piece he finished for his brother.