Giovanni Bellini by Julia Davis (English) Paperback Book

Description: Giovanni Bellini by Julia Davis GIOVANNI BELLINIGiovanni Bellini (c . 1430-1516) is the author of some of the most exquisite of Renaissance paintings. He is, in a sense, the painterâ™s painter, who had a long career, like his pupil, Titian, in painting. He influenced many artists, among them Titian, Giorgione, Vecchio, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Albrecht Durer. His influences include Andreas Mantegna, his father, Jacopo Bellini, Antonello, and Donatello.Bellini does everything in his paintings that Renaissance painters are supposed to do: he painted beautiful pictures, devotional images, of the Madonna, Christ and various saints; he painted mythological scenes, and scenes from history; he refined and defined Early Renaissance space, bringing it into the High Renaissance; he inaugurated a new feeling for landscape; he remained true to the sacred and emotional aspects of painting to the end of his career; he developed the various formats of Renaissance painting - the small, private devotional pictures, the large, public altarpieces, a host of secular portraits and large-scale friezes.One might see Bellini as supremely a high Renaissance artist, especially in his later altarpieces, where his sense of space seems in tune with Titian or Raphael. Belliniâ™s style is very sweet. His paintings are full of a love for painting, and a love for his subjects. The ambiguities in his works do not arise from his intentions, which are, as with so many Renaissance painters, to be as exalting as possible. So his Madonnas and saints are lovingly painted.There is an undeniable sensuality in Giovanni Belliniâ™s art. Central to his art is his sensuality. It is the same with the art of Leonardo, Caravaggio, Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens. The sensuality of the paintings themselves, as objects, is crucial to their evaluation aesthetically. Bellini is a sensual painter - not simply in his treatment of eroticism, or in the eroticism of his forms, but also because he painted self-consciously erotic subjects. He painted female nudes: the Woman with a Mirror (in Vienna), in The Feast of the Gods (in Washington) and in the restollo of Truth (in Venice).Giovanni Belliniâ™s sacred art is as erotic as his secular art, as with many a painter. Indeed, one might say that some of Belliniâ™s Christian paintings are more erotic than his paintings of mythological or historical subjects. His Pietas, for instance, with that lovingly described dead, nude Christ, may be seen as more erotic than the Classical scenes. The eroticism of art depends a lot on the viewerâ™s response. And on painterly surface and tec FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The mythology and veneration of divine motherhood was lyrically refined by the great Venetian Renaissance painter. Undoubtedly one of the greatest masters of painting writes Rona Goffen. Davis employs French philosopher Julia Kristevas psychoanalytic reading of Bellini as a departure point for a lucid exploration of the themes of motherhood, gender, form, colour, pain, emotion and sacrality. Details ISBN1861711646 Author Julia Davis Pages 124 Publisher Crescent Moon Publishing Language English ISBN-10 1861711646 ISBN-13 9781861711649 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Birth 1900 Imprint Crescent Moon Publishing Place of Publication Kent Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 759.5 Illustrations black & white illustrations Edition 2nd Short Title GIOVANNI BELLINI 2/E Series Painters AU Release Date 2008-03-01 NZ Release Date 2008-03-01 UK Release Date 2008-03-01 Edition Description 2nd ed. Publication Date 2008-03-01 Alternative 9781861715425 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:47683956;

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