For his or her final exhibition earlier than closing for over a yr of renovation, the Jacquemart-André Museum has opened the primary French exhibition about one of many founders of the Venetian college of portray, Giovanni Bellini (1435-1516).
Hello father was a painter, his brother was a painter, his brother)in)legislation was a painter… Unsurprisingly, Giovanni Bellini additionally turned a painter, however following his personal path, preferring the Venetian model to that of Florence, which was the popular model of the period.
Through the years, his work turned extra monumental, influenced by byzantine artwork, the Flemish sense of element and artwork from northern Europe, however above all, Bellini constantly searched to reinvent himself, taking inspiration from upcoming painters youthful than him and favouring a extra vibrant model, particularly in direction of the tip of his profession.
The exhibition consists of round fifty work (with particular loans from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, in addition to different museums in France, Italy and Spain) presenting the evolution of the artist’s model in a thematic, chronological presentation.
To study extra about Bellini, guided visits are on provide for 32€ per individual 😳 (slightly expensive, though it does embrace entry to the museum), and a list of the exhibition has simply been revealed (192 pages, approx. 40€) obtainable right here out of your native amazon.
And earlier than you go all the way down to the exhibition, maybe you’ll take pleasure in this 2½ hour slideshow (in 4K !) of a few of Giovanni Bellini’s work 😛
The exhibition Giovanni Bellini, influences croisées is on the Jacquemart-André Museum (right here) from third March – seventeenth July 2023
Open seven days every week from 10am-6pm (8.30pm Mondays)
Admission: 17€ (as a lot because the Louvre!) / 13€
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