# Giovanni Bellini

Italian, 1424–1516; born in Venice; died in Venice

Giovanni Bellini, son of the painter Jacopo and brother-in-law of Andrea Mantegna, led Venetian painting for half a century. He did much to give the city its name for colour and light, adopting oil paint and developing serene altarpieces and devotional images of the Madonna and Child set in luminous landscapes. Giorgione and Titian emerged from his circle. The Feast of the Gods, painted for Alfonso d’Este of Ferrara, was later altered by Titian.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

2 works in the collection.

- [The Feast of the Gods](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-feast-of-the-gods-nga-1138), Giovanni Bellini, 1514/1529. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- [Madonna and Child](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/madonna-and-child-met-435641), Giovanni Bellini, late 1480s. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.