Where can you see Giovanni Bellini in Florence?

At the Uffizi Gallery: Sacred Allegory. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Giovanni Bellini's most famous work in Florence?

Sacred Allegory, of about 1490 to 1500, at the Uffizi Gallery. Saints and children on a marble terrace beside a still lake, with a hermit and a centaur on the far shore. It may be a meditation on paradise. It is, in any case, a picture of perfect quiet.

When and where was Giovanni Bellini born?

About 1430 to 1435, at Venice. Giovanni Bellini died on 29 November 1516, at Venice, aged about 86.

What is Giovanni Bellini known for?

Painted the Sacred Allegory about 1490 to 1500. Scholars have argued about its subject for more than a century. Giovanni Bellini was an Italian painter, of the Venetian Renaissance.

Painter, 1430 to 1516

Giovanni Bellini

Bellini was a Venetian and never came to Florence. The Sacred Allegory reached the Uffizi long after his death.

Born: 1430, Venice
Died: 1516, Venice
Movement: Venetian Renaissance
In Florence: 1 work in 1 museum

Where to see Giovanni Bellini in Florence

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Uffizi Gallery1 work

Sacred Allegory
about 1490 to 1500
Saints and children on a marble terrace beside a still lake, with a hermit and a centaur on the far shore. It may be a meditation on paradise. It is, in any case, a picture of perfect quiet.

The life of Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni was the son of one painter, the brother of another and the brother-in-law of a third, Mantegna. He took up the oil technique that had come from the north and used it to paint light: the first Italian whose skies look like weather.

He was official painter to the Republic of Venice, and the portrait of its doge is the best picture that office produced.

What to know

Painted the Sacred Allegory about 1490 to 1500
Scholars have argued about its subject for more than a century

Born: About 1430 to 1435, Venice
Died: 29 November 1516, Venice

Giovanni Bellini: common questions

Where can you see Giovanni Bellini in Florence?: At the Uffizi Gallery: Sacred Allegory. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Giovanni Bellini's most famous work in Florence?: Sacred Allegory, of about 1490 to 1500, at the Uffizi Gallery. Saints and children on a marble terrace beside a still lake, with a hermit and a centaur on the far shore. It may be a meditation on paradise. It is, in any case, a picture of perfect quiet.
When and where was Giovanni Bellini born?: About 1430 to 1435, at Venice. Giovanni Bellini died on 29 November 1516, at Venice, aged about 86.
What is Giovanni Bellini known for?: Painted the Sacred Allegory about 1490 to 1500. Scholars have argued about its subject for more than a century. Giovanni Bellini was an Italian painter, of the Venetian Renaissance.