Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance | Giovanni Bellini - The Early Years (Lecture 29)
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance | Giovanni Bellini - The Early Years (Lecture 29)

Lecture 29: The first of three lectures on Giovanni Bellini, brother of Gentile, studies his Madonnas and his moving images of the Pietá, or Lamentation.

Bellini was Andrea Mantegna's brother-in-law, and their versions of The Agony in the Garden are compositionally similar but stylistically and expressively diverse.