GIOVANNI (e.1436-1516) was probably the younger son of Jacopo. Even more than those of Gentile, his early works show Paduan influ (nice. In fact, they are often confounded with Andrea Mantegna's, and reveal a careful study of the sculptures of Donatello at Padua. Among the best of them are the "Crucifixion." "Trans figuration," and "Pietil" in the Museo Correr, the "Agony in the Garden" in the National Gallery, and a number of Madonnas in the Venetian Academy and elsewhere. After 1460 his Venetian characteristics begin to prevail, and an epoch in his art is marked by his journey to l'esaro. Hitherto he had executed small de votional pieces; but with his large "Coronation of the Virgin,'' painted for San Francesco in that town, he began a series of huge altar-picees, through which he is chiefly known. A remin iscence of his journey to Pesaro is shown in the beautiful "Transfiguration" at Naples. Between 1480 and 1490 he painted a large number of his most important works, like the .1Nladonna in the National Gallery, the one in the Venetian Acad emy with Saints Catharine and Mary Magdalen, the altar-piece of San Giobbe (14871—also in the Academy—and the famous !Madonna with the Doge Barberino at \Imam) (14Ss). In the
nineties he was occupied with the decorations of the Duval Palace. The allegories in the Academy and the "Tree of Life" in the Uffizi probably date from the same period. The principal works of his latest period are the "Baptism of Christ" in Santa Corona, Vicenza. the altar-pieces of San C'risostomo and San Zaccaria, Venice. in the last of which he approached the new style of High Renaissance, and his last-known work, the "Ma donna and Child" (1514) in the Brera. Ile is the most important figure in Venetian painting of the fifteenth century, to which he gave his individual impulse. He was a colorist rather Dina a draughtsman, and was the chief influence in giving Venetian painting its wonderful golden tone. He was also celebrated as a portrait painter. Consult Thuasne, Gentile Bellini ct le sultan Mohammed II. (Paris, ISS8) ; Mintz, in Gazette des Brays-Arts (ih., 188-0 ; Berenson, l'enetion Painters at the Exposition of l'rnetian Art I London, 1895); Fry, Giovanni Bellini (ih., IS99).