Jacopo Bellini
Jacopo Bellini (c.1400-1470), Venetian painter, was one of the
Bellini family of painters; his sons were Gentile Bellini and Giovanni
Bellini, and his son-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. Jacopo was one
of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and
northern Italy.
Jacopo had been a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano's. He ran a workshop
in Venice right up until his death. Many of his greatest works,
including the enormous Crucifixion in the cathedral of Verona, have
disappeared. Few of his paintings still exist, but his surviving
sketch-books (one in the British Museum and one in the Louvre) show
an interest in landscape and elaborate architectual design and are
his most important legacy. His surviving works show how he accommodated
linear perspective to the decorative patterns and rich colors of
Venetian painting school.
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