The Cambridge Companion to Bellini

The Cambridge Companion to Bellini brings together commissioned essays by an international team of scholars on Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early Renaissance Venice.

Among the topics and themes to be discussed in The Cambridge Companion to Bellini are Bellini's position in the social and professional life of early modern Venice; his artistic relationships with his brother-in-law Mantegna, with Flemish painting, and with the 'modern style' that emerged in Italy around 1500; and the connections between Bellini's paintings and the sister arts of architecture and sculpture.

Further essays reassess Bellini's approaches to landscape and colour, elements that have always been recognized as central to his pictorial genius.