Giovanni
Bellini

Venetian painter. Together with his brother Gentile he founded the Venetian school of painting in the early Renaissance.

• 1435

  Born as son of the painter Jacopo Bellini in Venice

• 1459–60

  Jacopo Bellini with possible contributions by Giovanni and Gentile Bellini: The Crucifixion, about 1459-60, egg tempera on panel, 28,6 x 57 cm

  
  © Photo Archive – Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

• 1475–80

  Giovanni Bellini: The Descent of Christ into Limbo,
  about 1475–80, oil on vellum on panel, 51,8 x 37,3 cm

  
  © Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK / Bridgeman Images

• Ab 1479

  Works in the doge’s palace

• 1483

  Named official painter of the Republic of Venice

• 1514

  Giovanni Bellini with later additions by Dosso Dossi and Titian:
  The Feast of the Gods, 1514-29, oil on canvas, 170,2 x 188 cm

  
  © Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

• 1516

  Dies on 29 November 1516 in Venice