A history of painting in north Italy; Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Millan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century (1871)
Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896, Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897 · London, J. Murray · leaf 228
enth centuries meets and mingles in perfectfellowship. It happened, therefore, to Bellini, that hesigned this picture in 1514, after sketching it, andthat when Titian was asked by the Duke of Ferrara tocomplete the series, he had to finish Bellinis work beforehe began his own.^ Yet Bellini lived… … Chap. VIII. GIOVANNI BELLINI. 193 longer. In 1515 he painted the so-called Venus of theBelvedere, a fine and well-selected type of ordinary femalebeauty, and so he ended Avith a startling contrast to theearly severity of his boyish years.^ His death occurredon the 29^> of November, 1516,^ and he…
