Giovanni Bellini (vers 1435-1516)

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.”

Celebrating the beauty and diversity of life, Giovanni Bellini painted nature in a different thousand ways. Inspired by the art of his Italian and Flemish contemporaries, he became a master of landscape painting before the genre existed.

A Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini (and an assistant) was fiercely fought over on November 9, during the sale of Old Master paintings orchestrated by Dorotheum in Vienna. This is the second highest price at auction for a work by the great Venetian Renaissance painter (source: Artnet)

Born into a family of Milan-based artists, Andrea Solario was a pupil of Giovanni Bellini in Venice, then worked in Leonardo da Vinci's studio. He became one of his most important successors, adopting his sculptural approach and intense palette.

The celebrated Italian artist Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691–1765) is known for his real and imaginary views of the Eternal City.

A great classic dear to collectors triumphed in Biarritz, where works by Pierre Soulages and Jean-Michel Frank were up for sale.

An exciting exhibition examining the reign of Charles VII at the musée de Cluny in Paris sheds light on the missing link between International Gothic and the French Renaissance, a period richer and more complex than it might seem.

The New York Institution is hailing the acquisition of Giovanni Battista Moroni’s Portrait of a Woman the most significant Italian Renaissance painting museum has acquired in more than half a century. The 16th-century painting was a gift from Assadour O. Tavitian, a longtime board member, who died in 2020. 

As La Gazette Drouot pointed out, this is one of the very few works by the painter of Florentine origin offered for public sale in the last fifteen years. An exclusive character that has seduced, since it has just been sold at €83,424, double its high estimate, under the hammer of Deburaux-Du Plessis.

Coming on the market for the first time, this large still life by Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo is an eloquent example of the Baroque developments explored by Neapolitan painters in the second half of the 17th century.