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Gentile Bellini: tags: [artist]

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[1421-1508]
the son of Jacopo Bellini, was distinguished as a portrait-painter; decorated along with his brother the council-chamber of the ducal palace; his finest picture the "Preaching of St. Mark".

Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907)

^{image 1: Mahomet II, By Gentile Bellini - Public Domain, http://www.lib-art.com/part/showimg.php?id=21250}
^{image 2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60483961}
^{image 3: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/floorplans/level-2/room-56}
^{license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/}

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I always ended up in this room. I didn't even like the painting; it's a Bellini and quite drab.

Anita Hughes. Christmas in London, p.231 (2017)

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Trevor was right, the painting by Bellini was all browns and grays.

Anita Hughes. Christmas in London, p.233 (2017)

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Vittore Carpaccio was a Venetian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittore_Carpaccio?oldid=789620130

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“Oh, yes, that boy I saw here once, who looks so like the Bellini portrait of Mahomet II. It’s an astonishing likeness; he has the same arched eyebrows and hooked nose and prominent cheekbones.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]

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