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Article: The line of beauty; Venetian art.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2006
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The silent poetry of Bellini's lady
WHO was the first modern artist? How about Giorgione? A far-fetched notion, perhaps, but this Renaissance Venetian revolutionised painting--and his work, focusing on secular subjects such as nudes, landscapes and female beauty, was dubbed "modern" by the leading art commentator of the day, Vasari.
Giorgione was not alone, as illustrated by the excellent catalogue accompanying the exhibition "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" now showing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. What made him, and the generation of artists he inspired, so special was his ability to absorb the ...
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... ... by his brother, Giovanni Bellini , c.1430-1516, who was ... Mantegna and Jacopo and Gentile Bellini were known chiefly as admirable ... landscapes had a great effect upon Venetian painting, especially upon his pupils ... See G. Robertson, Giovanni Bellini (1968); H. Tietze, The ...
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