Giovanni Bellini By Grace Walsh

Giovanni Bellini ( ), was a Venetian painter, is probably the best known of the Bellini family. The type of art he painted was Religious. He used a lot of colour and atmosphere in oil painting. His father was Jacopo Bellini and his brother was Gentile Bellini.

Giovanni also had a sister Niccolsa who married Andrea Mantegain. Andrea was also a Renaissance painter. He is considered to have changed the way of Venetian painting, making it a more "sensuous and colouristic style". His most famous pupils were Giorgione and Titian.

Paintings Here are his best known paintings. But a while after his death most of his bestest works were destroyed in a church fire in 1577.

Allegory

Saint George from The Pala Pesa

Transfiguration

Madonna and Child - Madonna Frizzoni

Madonna and Child With Saint Jerome

Resurrection of Christ

Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Agony In The Garden