Giovanni Bellini

15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1516)

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Lived 1430–1516, aged 86

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1430–1516
Aged 86

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Venetian Renaissance painter who's now way more famous than his older brother Gentile ever was. Bellini spent centuries in the shadow of his own legacy before the art world caught up.

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Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father, but now that familial generational relationship is questioned. An older brother, Gentile Bellini, was more highly regarded than Giovanni during his lifetime, but the reverse is true today. His brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna.

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