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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This is an important small-scale devotional painting by the fifteenth-century Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini. This format was one that Giovanni inherited from his successful father Jacopo. The import of Byzantine icons and small scale devotional works from the Netherlands fuelled Venetians' interests in this kind of painting. The man in the background is the patron of the piece. Such figures were often added to the sides of Renaissance altarpieces. He gives the scene a visionary quality, so that a viewer can imagine they are witnessing a miraculous appearance of the Christ Child, a quality sustained by Bellini's exquisite brushwork. | Subjects: | religion (Virgin and Child); portrait (Marin Hollivier?) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bellini, Giovanni (Italian painter, born 1431-1436, died 1516) and studio Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8689... | Go to resource |
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