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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Together with his workshop, Giovanni Bellini, the pre-eminent artist of early Renaissance Venice, produced many small devotional panels of the Virgin and Child. Bellini's signature appears on the cartellino and it is thought that he contributed the figure of John the Baptist and perhaps the Infant's head. One of Bellini's collaborators, perhaps Niccolò Rondinelli, also worked on the composition. Infra-red reflectography has revealed underdrawing throughout, and it was discovered that the painter slightly altered the position of the fingers of the Baptist's hand and that he drew the Baptist's head more freely than the heads of the Virgin and Child. | Subjects: | religion (Virgin and Child John the Baptist) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bellini, Giovanni (Italian painter, born 1431-1436, died 1516) and studio Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8878... | Go to resource |
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