Word: bellini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteenth Century Venice stood out of the Adriatic in a blaze of gold, ultramarine and many-colored marble. There Giovanni Bellini grew up, amidst a half-Oriental riot of clear colors. Scores of carved and painted ships furled their emblazoned sails at the city's steps. Indoors, Byzantine mosaics shattered the streaming white light into stabs of dandelion yellow, blood, emerald, and midnight blue. Paintings glistened with the burnished metals and translucent glazes evolved by Pisanello and Gentile da Fabriano...
...Giovanni breathed in all this brightness and richness like the air, and almost as naturally began painting pictures of his own. Now, in a handsome book to be published next week (Giovanni Bellini, Phaidon, Oxford; $6.50), a large part of Bellini's work has been spread out for those who want to see the dawn of the Renaissance in Venice...
...when he was past 80, Giovanni Bellini cleaned his brushes and closed his eyes for the last time. He himself was leaving Venice richer than he had found it; and two of his students gave the old man cause for pride. They were Giorgione and Titian...
...cash is plentiful in the current U.S. art market-and pedigreed paintings are scarce. Average collectors may well be confused by recent auction prices. So may experts. (The jolt of the year was a Bellini from the Jules Bache collection. Bache had paid $160,000 for it; a dealer got it last month at auction...
...Street firm in 1892, swelled it to 42 offices, 800 employes. He became one of the greatest patrons of pre-19th-Century art, in 1937 turned over to New York his Fifth Avenue mansion, with its choice, more-than-$12,000,000 assortment of canvases, from 18th-Century Giovanni Bellini to 18th-Century Sir Joshua Reynolds...