Giovanni Bellini
Venetian, born between 1431 and 1436–1516
American, Japanese descent, active in Hawaii, born 1947
BiographyGiovanni was a leading master in 15th-century Venice. He expanded his workshop after ca. 1490, training and influencing his numerous shop-hands, imitators (generically known as Belliniani), and several major Venetian painters of the next generation. Giovanni absorbed a wide range of artistic influences, both from within the Venetian tradition and from outside. He inspired a technical revolution in the art of painting, gradually abandoning the traditional Italian medium, egg tempera, to instead use the technique of oil painting that had been pioneered in the Netherlands. Italian painter. (source: Getty ULAN)