Giovanni Bellini at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris

Published on 07 April 2023, by Armelle Fémelat et Sylvie Blin

With 50-odd works, the Musée Jacquemart-André is giving visitors a chance to see and understand the art of Giovanni Bellini, the forerunner of Venetian “colore.”

Giovanni Bellini, The Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels, c. 1470-1475, tempera... Giovanni Bellini at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris

Giovanni Bellini, The Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels, c. 1470-1475, tempera and oil on wood, 82.9 x 66.9 cm/32.6 x 26.3 in (detail).

Those who love the art of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1435-1516) can rejoice: the precursor of the Venetian school of painting is finally the star of an exhibition in France. Subtitled "Influences croisées” (“Cross-Influences”), it provides an opportunity to see and understand the master’s work in the light of his multiple sources and formative inspiration. In the catalog, the exhibition manager Neville Rowley (also curator at the Gemäldegalerie and the Bode-Museum in Berlin) tells us that "Giovanni Bellini was a painter who observed,…

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