Giovanni Bellini’s ‘St. Francis in Ecstasy’ is a minimal painting with soft, ... One of the most famous paintings of a Biblical scene is Caravaggio’s ‘The Calling of St. Matthew’.

The neglected son became the most famous in a family of illustrious painters, the official painter of La Serenissima. When Gentile died in 1507, Giovanni finally inherited their father’s drawings.

A 15th Century painting has gone back on display at a stately home where it was once hung for more than a century. Giovanni Bellini's The Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist was purchased ...

Sibling rivalry can, as in the case of the Renaissance painters Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna, become an inspiration, which leads to greater things.They were brothers by marriage ...