The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini
The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini
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This Companion volume brings together commissioned essays by an international team of scholars on Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early Renaissance Venice. Among the topics and themes to be discussed are Bellini's position in the social and professional life of early modern Venice; his artistic relationships with his brother-in-law Mantegna, with Flemish painting, and with the 'modern style' that emerged in Italy around 1500; and the connections between Bellini's paintings and the sister arts of architecture and sculpture. Further essays reassess the artist's approaches to landscape and color, elements that have always been recognized as central to his pictorial genius.
- Complements existing monographs by concentrating on aspects of Bellini that authors treat only in passing
- Incorporates recent research on the subject
- Stimulates fruitful lines of investigation
Reviews & endorsements
"...highly recommended..." Times Literary Supplement
"The scholarly approaches range from broad social history to detailed investigations of technique; it is impossible to treat them all in detail here, but they are of exceptional quality and interest...the book is also useful for its treatment of the historiography of the artist by tracing key issues in Bellini scholarship and his shifting critical fortunes. All the authors are sensitive to the book's dual audience of specialists and students." CAA Reviews, Maria Ruvoldt
Product details
November 2003Hardback
9780521662963
384 pages
236 × 160 × 26 mm
0.835kg
114 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print December 2015
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Peter Humfrey
- 2. Bellini's social world J. M. Fletcher
- 3. Bellini and Mantegna Keith Christiansen
- 4. Bellini and Flemish painting Mauro Lucco
- 5. Bellini and the 'modern manner' Carolyn C. Wilson
- 6. Bellini and sculpture Debra Pincus
- 7. Bellini and architecture Deborah Howard
- 8. Bellini and landscape Augusto Gentili
- 9. Bellini's colour
- 10. Bellini's technique Jill Dunkerton
- 11. Bellini's drawings George Goldner
- 12. Bellini and his collaborators Anchise Tempestini.
