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The Virgin and Child with a donor couple
Gentile Bellinicirca 1460
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Die Jungfrau überreicht ihr gesegnetes Kind einem Stifterpaar, das im Profil und in kleinerem Maßstab als Zeichen der Hingabe dargestellt ist. Der Rahmen, dessen Authentizität mehrfach bezweifelt wurde ist nach neuesten technischen Untersuchungen offenbar zugehörig und trägt die Signatur des Künstlers.
SIGNATUR / INSCHRIFT: Bez. auf dem unteren Teil des zugehörigen, aber überarbeiteten Rahmens: OPVS • GENTILIS • BELLINVS •
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- Title: The Virgin and Child with a donor couple
- Creator: Gentile Bellini
- Date Created: circa 1460
- Physical Dimensions: 079,4 x 048,0
- Type: Devotional picture
- External Link: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Medium: Basswood (Transferred To Canvas)
- Style: Italian
- Inv. No.: 1180
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-017018
- Copyright Image: Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Image by Google
- Collection: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Artist information: The Italian painter Gentile Bellini became famous as the official portraitist for the Doges of Venice. Gentile was taught painting in his father's workshop. During the 1470s he worked for the Scuola Grande di San Marco. From 1474 he was employed as the official portraitist for the Venetian Doges: with 'Doge Giovanni Mocenigo' (1478) being a famous work from this period. Ventian history also served as a subject for his work. In 1479 he was chosen by the government of Venice to work for Sultan Mehmed II in Constantinople. As a cultural ambassador for Venice he was sent to Constantinople as part of the peace settlement between Venice and the Turks. His time in the East lent an oriental flavour to his paintings. Back in Venice, his last great composition, La predica di S. Marco ad Alessandria, was commissioned by the school of San Marco in 1505. His brother finished the work after his death.
- Artist Place of Death: Venice, Italy
- Artist Place of Birth: Venice, Italy
- Artist Gender: male
- Artist Dates: 1435/38 - 1507
- Acquired: 1821 Purchase from the collection of the merchant Edward Solly, Berlin
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