Giovanni BelliniItalie, 1430–1516LA CIRCONCISION
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Musée du Petit Palais
Avignon, France
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Pendant ce temps, chez Giovanni Bellini
La vie entière1498
The death of his wife Ginevra
Judging by the will of Bellini's son, Ginevra died in 1498. The archives also hold the will of a certain Maria, who calls herself the widow of the painter Giovanni Bellini; some scholars conclude from it that he married a second time.
1501–1505
Isabella Gonzaga and commissions without paintings
In 1501–04 the Marchioness of Mantua, Isabella Gonzaga (also known as Isabella d'Este), has great difficulty obtaining from Bellini a painting of the Madonna and Saints, for which she has already paid in advance (it is now lost). In 1505 she tries through Pietro Bembo to commission another, of secular or mythological content; its subject and fate are unknown.
1506
Meeting Dürer in Venice
On Albrecht Dürer's second visit to Venice he calls Bellini very old but still the best in painting, and full of courtesy toward foreign fellow painters. In a letter to Pirckheimer Dürer reports that Bellini praised him before many gentlemen and came himself to ask for a work, promising to pay well.
1507
The death of his brother Gentile
After Gentile's death Giovanni inherits their father Jacopo's sketchbook, on condition that he finish a picture his brother left incomplete. Marin Sanudo notes that Gentile's brother Zuan Belin remains, the most excellent painter in Italy.
1513
Titian demands a share in the Doge's Palace paintings
