Widely recognized as one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Bellini is revered for his mastery of color, atmosphere and light. However, his early life and career remain something of a mystery. Daniel Wallace Maze expands on groundbreaking research that argues Jacopo Bellini was not Giovanni Bellini’s father, but rather his half-brother, and that Giovanni was born between 1424-26, up to fifteen years earlier than current scholars’ estimates. In light of this, ‘Young Bellini’ explores the artist’s early life, including his birth, his unusual upbringing in Venice, and his first-known works of art.

Author Daniel Wallace Maze Published by Yale University Press ISBN 9780300236613 EAN 9780300236613 Bic Code Cover Hardback