Portrait of Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus by Gentile Bellini, at the Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest.

Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 - February 23, 1507) was an Italian painter. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2528, 651 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Gentile Bellini Catherine Cornaro ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2528, 651 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Gentile Bellini Catherine Cornaro ... Caterina Cornaro (1454 - 1510) was Queen of Cyprus from 1474 - 1489. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1507 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Born in Venice, the son of the painter Jacopo Bellini, he was christened Gentile after Jacopo's master, Gentile da Fabriano. From 1474 he was the official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice. Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia, Latin: Venetia) is a city in northern Italy, the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,251 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ... Madonna and Child Blessing (c. ... Adoration of the Magi (1423). ... Grand Procession of the Doge, 16th century For about a thousand years, the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge, a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux, as the major Italian parallel Duce and the English Duke. ...

Much of Gentile Bellini's surviving work consists of very large paintings for public buildings, including those for the Scuola Grande di San Marco (1470s), painted in conjunction with his brother, the even better known Giovanni Bellini. The Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista hired Bellini amongst other artists to paint a narrative cycle. Bellini painted three oil on canvas paintings. The most beautiful, the Procession of the True Cross in Piazza San Marco (now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice) was painted in 1496. Bellini depicts a man witnessing a miracle in the Piazza; this painting gained the Scuola huge prestige. In 1478 he was chosen by the government of Venice to go to Istanbul and finish a portrait of Sultan Mehmed II (now in the National Gallery, London, but largely overpainted). It has been noticed that the portrait is like one of the figures in a painting by Marco Palmezzano, Jesus among the Doctors in the Temple (Brisighella, near Forlì and Ravenna). So the dating and authorship of the portrait by Bellini have been placed in question. The Scuola Grande of San Marco. ... Events and Trends battle of Avenches 1476 Prominent Persons Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician A map of Europe in the 1470s. ... Giovanni Bellini painted his first female nude when he was about 85 years old. ... The Gallerie dell’Accademia is an art gallery housed in the former monastary in Venice, Italy. ... Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. ... Sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. ... Mehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى , Turkish: ), (also known as el-Fatih (الفاتح), the Conqueror, in Ottoman Turkish, or, in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet) (March 30, 1432 – May 3, 1481) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to 1446, and later from 1451 to 1481. ... Londons National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. ... Marco Palmezzano was an Italian painter and architect, born in Forlì, Italy around 1459 and who died in 1539. ... Brisighella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 45 km southeast of Bologna and about 40 km southwest of Ravenna. ... Forlì is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forlì and of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, at the nearby comune of Predappio. ... Ravenna is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ...

Subsequently an Oriental flavour appears in several of his paintings, including the portrait of a Turkish artist and St. Mark Preaching at Alexandria (Brera, Milan). The last was completed by his brother, Giovanni Bellini. ... Giovanni Bellini painted his first female nude when he was about 85 years old. ...

A portrait by Gentile Bellini and workshop of the much-loved Venetian Beato Lorenzo Giustiniani is at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan. In his last years he was the first master of Titian. The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a not-for-profit historic house museum in the Montenapoleone district [1] of downtown Milan, northern Italy. ... Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. ...

Selected works

• Madonna Enthroned with Child (1475-1485) - National Gallery, London
• Portrait of Doge Giovanni Mocenigo (1478-1485) - Museo Correr, Venice
• Procession in St. Mark's Square (1496) - Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
• Miracle of the Reliquary of the Cross (1500)
• St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria (1504-1507) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
• Man with a Pair of Dividers
• St. Dominic
• Mehmet The Conqueror
• Portrait of Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus - Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

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• Gentile Bellini in the "A World History of Art"