Bellini, Gentile - Procession St. Marks Square Venice

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• Work of art title: Procession in St. Mark's Square, Venice
• Artist (if known): Gentile Bellini
• Media or other details: 
• Publisher / Gallery: Venice Gallery & Academy, Italy
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): Italian 100 + 30 definitive stamps, posted in Florence to London
• Size:  Modern
• Notes & condition details: very good for postally used

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Stock No.: A122

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 – February 23, 1507) was an Italian painter. Born in Venice, the son of the painter Jacopo Bellini, he was christened Gentile after Jacopo's master, Gentile da Fabriano.^[1] From 1474 he was the official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice.

Gentile was born into a family of renowned painters: his father Jacopo Bellini, was a Venetian pioneer in the use of oil paint as an artistic medium; his acclaimed brother was Giovanni Bellini, and his brother-in-law Andrea Mantegna. Gentile was taught painting in the workshop of his father. Although today Gentile is often seen in the shadow of his more famous family members, in his own time he was considered among the greatest living painters in Venice and had no shortage of commissions; his talent as a portraitist revealed itself at an early age.

Gentile earliest signed work is The Blessed Lorenzo Giustinian (1445), one of the oldest surviving oil paintings in Venice, (now at the Accademia Museum). During the 1470s Bellini worked on a commission for the Scuola Grande di San Marco and painted in conjunction with his brother, Giovanni Bellini. From 1474 he was also the official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice,^[2] (for example, see image of the Doge Giovanni Mocenigo at right).

Much of Gentile Bellini’s surviving work consists of very large paintings for public buildings, including those for the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista. Along with Lazzaro Bastiani, Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Mansueti and Benedetto Rusconi, Bellini was one of the artists of hired to paint the 10-painting narrative cycle known as The Miracles of the Relic of the Cross. The commission was intended to celebrate the relic of the Holy Cross which the confraternity had received in 1369. Gentile's contributions are among his best known works today, especially the Procession of the True Cross in Piazza San Marco (now in the Accademia, Venice), which dates from 1496, (at left).