Mantegna and Bellini: a strange relationship, a connection between two of the greatest Renaissance artists

3. a strange relationship, a connection between two of the greatest Renaissance artists
sibling rivalry can become an inspiration …

4. une histoire d’art, de famille, de rivalité et de personnalité de deux artistes de la Renaissance

7. Mantegna and Bellini
two of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance

8. Mantegna et Bellini
deux artistes emblématiques de la Renaissance italienne

11. BELLINI, Giovanni
The Agony in the
Garden
L'Agonie dans le
jardin
1458-1460
National Gallery,
London
MANTEGNA, Andrea
The Agony in the
Garden
L'Agonie dans le
jardin
1455-1456
National Gallery,
London

16. BELLINI, Giovanni
The Dead Christ supported by
Two Angels
Le Christ mort soutenu par deux
anges
1465-1470
National Gallery, London
MANTEGNA, Andrea
The Dead Christ supported by
Two Angels
Le Christ mort soutenu par deux
anges
1495-1500
Statens Museum for Kunst,
Copenhagen

21. BELLINI, Giovanni
Madonna and Child
Madone à l'enfant
c. 1475
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
MANTEGNA, Andrea
Virgin with Sleeping Child
Vierge à l'Enfant endormi
1465-1470
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

26. BELLINI, Giovanni
The presentation of Jesus
Christ in the temple
La Présentation au Temple
1470-1475
Fondazione Querini
Stampalia, Venezia
MANTEGNA, Andrea
The Presentation of Christ in
the Temple
La Présentation au Temple
1454
Staatliche Museen,
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

31. BELLINI, Giovanni
The Feast of the Gods
Le Festin des dieux
1514
National Gallery of Art,
Washington
MANTEGNA, Andrea
Triumph of the Virtues, Minerva
Expelling the Vices from the
Garden of Virtue
Minerve chassant les Vices du
jardin des Vertus
1499
Musée du Louvre, Paris

37. BELLINI, Giovanni
The Calvary
Le Calvaire
1465-1470
Musée du Louvre,
Paris
MANTEGNA,
Andrea
Crucifixion
Le Calvaire
1457-1459
Musée du Louvre,
Paris

42. BELLINI, Giovanni
Resurrection of Christ
La Résurrection du Christ
1478-1479
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
MANTEGNA, Andrea
Death of the Virgin
La Mort de la Vierge
1460-64
Museo del Prado, Madrid

47. BELLINI, Giovanni, BELLINI,
Jacopo, BELLINI, Gentile
Triptych of St Sebastian
Triptyque de Saint Sébastien
1464-1470
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
MANTEGNA, Andrea
St Sebastian
Le Martyre de saint Sébastien
1459
Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna

52. BELLINI, Giovanni
Portrait of Doge Leonardo
Loredan
Le Doge Leonardo Loredan
1501
National Gallery, London
MANTEGNA, Andrea
Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan
Portrait du Cardinal Ludovico
Trevisan
1459-60
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

57. BELLINI, Giovanni
Madonna and Child with
Saint Catherine and
Mary Magdalene (Sacra
Conversazione)
La Vierge à l'Enfant
entre sainte Catherine et
sainte Marie Madeleine
c. 1490
Gallerie dell'Accademia,
Venice
MANTEGNA, Andrea
Holy Family with the
Infant St John the
Baptist
La Sainte Famille avec
sainte Élisabeth et saint
Jean Baptiste enfant
1495-1500
Gemäldegalerie,
Dresden

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Mantegna and Bellini, two of the greatest artists of the Italian
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66. Mantegna and Bellini …
art, family, rivalry, marriage, pragmatism, and personality
The son of a carpenter, Andrea Mantegna was a self-made man. In 1453 the prodigiously talented young painter
from Padua, married into the greatest artistic family of nearby Venice – the Bellini.
Mantegna’s new brother-in-law, Giovanni Bellini, was also a phenomenally gifted artist who was bringing new
innovations to the Venetian use of colour, observed light, atmosphere, and landscape to create an entirely new
form of art.
Their admiration and respect were mutual.
For seven years Mantegna and Bellini worked in close creative dialogue. Inspired by each other’s example, they
both experimented and worked in ways they were not entirely comfortable with in order to hone their artistic
skills and identities.
In 1460, Mantegna decided to pursue his own artistic path and moved to Mantua, where he occupied the post of
court painter to the ruling Gonzaga family until his death in 1506.
Bellini, who died 10 years after Mantegna, spent his entire career in Republican Venice. Despite the distance
between them, their creative exchange continued throughout their long lives.
Each artist continued to scale new heights in skill and ingenuity but remained forever shaped by their time
together and by the knowledge of the other’s work and achievements.

67. Mantegna et Bellini, artistes et beaux-frères
Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo 1430/31- Mantoue 1506) commence sa vie comme gardien de troupeaux.
Giovanni Bellini (actif vers 1459-1516), est né avec un pinceau à la main.
Le premier, par son génie foudroyant, fait fi des obstacles de la naissance et le voici, vers l’âge de 10 ans,
apprenti chez Francesco Squarcione. Le maître padouan lui enseigne le latin et l’amour de la sculpture de la
Rome antique.
Le second appartient à la plus célèbre dynastie d’artistes de Venise. Fils et frère de peintres (il les surpassera
tous deux !), Giovanni a aussi une sœur, Nicolosia. Elle devient Mme Andrea Mantegna en 1453…
Ce mariage consolide l’une des grandes amitiés artistiques de la Renaissance à son aurore.
… les deux versions de la Prière au jardin des Oliviers, de la Présentation du Christ au temple, la Crucifixion de
Mantegna et du Calvaire de Bellini ...
par-delà le jeu des influences mutuelles, ce sont deux visions du monde qui dialoguent, entre humanisme et
sensibilité à la nature.