Word: bellinis
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...north wall of the main upper gallery the photographs from portraits by Dutch and Flemish masters have been replaced by another series after portraits, and ideal heads, by the Venetian masters: Bellini, Giorzione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Among these are portraits of himself by each master, and others of various historical personages...
...photographs is made up of reproductions of the work of the Italian school of the sixteenth century, among those represented being Titian, Cogliari or Paul Veronese, Bellini, Robusti and Rosseo de Rossi...
Gentile de Fabriano is an artist of great repute at this period, and his personality is strongly impressed upon Venetian art. His most distinguished pupil was Bellini. The two Bellinis, father and son, lived and worked in Padua, and were influenced strongly by its art. Yet they are the real founders of Venetian art. Color is still predominant; hardness of line and statuesqueness of form melt away before its influence. Bellini attracts on account of his honest and earnest painting of saints and madonnas. His characters are dignified and possessed of angelic qualities. Truth and elegance mark his style...
Carpaccio, a less distinguished contemporary of Bellini, but one who has been praised highly by Ruskin, was not exactly a religious or devotional painter, but he leads us rather to the historic, the legendary and the chivalric. His pictures are the first attempt to get the out-of-door effect in nature. In all the Italian art of the fifteenth century there is no affectation, but sincerity, simplicity and purity...