Young Bellini

November 16, 2021
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Daniel Wallace Maze
ISBN: 
9780300236613

From the Yale University Press website:

A revisionist history of the early life and career of Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini

Widely recognized as one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Bellini is revered for his mastery of color, atmosphere and light. However, his early life and career remain something of a mystery. Daniel Wallace Maze expands on groundbreaking research that argues Jacopo Bellini was not Giovanni Bellini’s father, but rather his half-brother, and that Giovanni was born between 1424–26, up to fifteen years earlier than current scholars’ estimates. In light of this, Young Bellini explores the artist’s early life, including his birth, his unusual upbringing in Venice, and his first-known works of art. Presenting a clear narrative of his early career, and offering a number of newly attributed paintings, Maze provides answers to longstanding questions about Bellini, and poses new questions that will frame future research on the artist's contribution to the Renaissance.


About Daniel Wallace Maze

Assistant Professor Daniel Wallace Maze is the Fountiene Lee Duda Faculty Fellow of Renaissance Art at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. Before joining the UI faculty in 2018, he held the Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence; a Fulbright Scholarship in the History of Art at the University of York; and the Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Huntington Library. His research has also been supported by fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment of the Humanities, and the Delmas Foundation.