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Bellini - George Hay
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Title: Bellini
Masterpieces in Colour Series
Author: George Hay
Release Date: November 11, 2012 [EBook #41346]
Language: English
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MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR
EDITED BY—T. LEMAN HARE
GIOVANNI BELLINI
PLATE I.—VIRGIN AND CHILD. (Frontispiece)
This picture is interesting, apart from its fine colour and drawing, on account of the landscape background. It will be remembered that Bellini was one of the first artists to introduce landscape into his pictures of the Virgin. In the Academy at Venice.
BELLINI
BY GEORGE HAY
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
From the standpoint of the biographer, it is to be regretted that more of the great Italian artists of the fifteenth century were not associated with the Church. In the days of the most interesting activity of painters and sculptors, the capacity to write was rarely met beyond the monasteries and few people took the trouble to record any impression of notable men in the early years of their career. We are apt to forget that, for one artist whose name is preserved to us to-day, there are a score of men whose work has