Giovanni Bellini

(Italian, 1430–1516)

Room Paintings holds 16 paintings by Giovanni Bellini, from the National Gallery of Art and The Met. They date from 1460 to 1514. We file all of them under Renaissance. The most common subjects are religion, children and men. Nine of them suit a room in our lists, most often the hallway or entryway and apartment or dorm.

Styles

Renaissance 16

Rooms

Museums

National Gallery of Art 11
The Met 5

The 16 paintings

Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini, late 1480s, oil on wood

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child, late 1480s The Met

The head and shoulders of a pale-skinned, clean-shaven man fills this vertical portrait painting. The man’s shoulders are angled to our left, and he looks off in that direction with light green eyes.

Giovanni Bellini Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1490 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the chest up, a clean-shaven young man with pale, peachy skin looks off to our left against a cloudy sky in this vertical portrait painting.

Giovanni Bellini Portrait of a Young Man in Red, c. 1480 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the shoulders up, a clean-shaven, pale-skinned man with shoulder-length brown hair and dressed in black fills this vertical portrait painting.

Giovanni Bellini Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, c. 1500 National Gallery of Art

Six women, eight men, two satyrs, and one child gather in pairs and trios in a loose row that spans the width of this nearly square painting. They are set within a landscape with craggy rocks, cliffs, and trees.

Giovanni Bellini The Feast of the Gods, 1514/1529 National Gallery of Art

Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, Giovanni Bellini, early 1460s, tempera on wood

Giovanni Bellini Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, early 1460s The Met

Shown from the waist up behind a stone ledge, a young woman nestles a nude baby against her chest in this vertical painting.

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child in a Landscape, c. 1480/1485 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the hips up, a woman sits facing our left as she cradles a child in her lap in this vertical painting. A ginger-brown parapet spanning the lower edge of the composition separates them from us, and they have pale skin.

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child in a Landscape, c. 1490/1500 National Gallery of Art

A bearded and balding man with deeply tanned skin, dressed only in a strip of robin’s egg-blue fabric around his shoulders and hips, sits reading a book on a rock at the entrance to a craggy cave, in front of a landscape in this vertical…

Giovanni Bellini Saint Jerome Reading, 1505 National Gallery of Art

A young, pale-skinned boy wearing a brilliant blue toga sits on a rock and holds a gold pitcher in a landscape in this vertical painting.

Giovanni Bellini The Infant Bacchus, probably 1505/1510 National Gallery of Art

Madonna and Child with Saints, Giovanni Bellini, ca. 1505–10, tempera and oil on wood

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child with Saints, ca. 1505–10 The Met

The Circumcision, Giovanni Bellini, 1511, oil on wood

Giovanni Bellini The Circumcision, 1511 The Met

Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini, ca. 1470, tempera, oil, and gold on wood

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child, ca. 1470 The Met

Shown from the chest up against a black background, a man with peachy skin wears a gold and rose-pink cloak in this vertical portrait painting.

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Emo, c. 1475/1480 National Gallery of Art

Men and women line up to either side of a man seated on a throne in this long, horizontal painting.

Giovanni Bellini An Episode from the Life of Publius Cornelius Scipio, after 1506 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the waist up, a young woman holds a baby up against her chest in this vertical painting. They both face us and have pale skin.

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child, c. 1480/1485 National Gallery of Art