History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 426
Fig. 3°°)-The colour has been injured by repainting, but the figures are lifelike, andthe Oriental costumes evidently reminiscences of Constantinople. [Morelliconfidently ascribes the head of Peter Martyr, in the National Gallery (No. THE EARLY RENASCENCE IN ITALY. 39i 808), to Gentile Bellini ; he… … Fig. 300. While Gentile Bellini was a keen realist, Giovanni had qualities that hisbrother certainly lacked—sentiment and a lofty poetical feeling which he lovedto embody in devotional works, 1 >«*t 11 for church decoration and for private US6As a colourist he rivalled his brother as soon as he…
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