Jacopo Bellini
c. 1396 - 1470
Jacopo Bellini was born in Venice around 1396; father of the painters Gentile and John and Nicosia, married to Andrea Mantegna. Jacopo spends the years of his training in close contact with the artist Gentile da Fabriano in Foligno (Umbria); around 1423 he is documented in Florence, where he was able to study in depth the art of Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio. Since 1424 he has been in Venice and in the following year he moves across Po valley (Este, Verona, Padua) at the service of different patrons. From the early 1450s he establishes himself in Venice, where he works with his sons. Jacopo represents one of the key figures in Venetian art: a link between late Gothic language and the first Renaissance and between different pictorial cultures, that of Venice and of Florence.
Text © Museo Correr, 2017
