Where can you see Giovanni Bellini in London?

At the National Gallery: Doge Leonardo Loredan and The Agony in the Garden. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

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

Doge Leonardo Loredan, of about 1501 to 1502, at the National Gallery. The head of the Venetian state in his robe of white and gold damask and horned cap, as fixed as a marble bust, against plain blue. The painter's name is on a slip of paper stuck to the ledge.

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?

The teacher of Giorgione and Titian. Brother-in-law of Andrea Mantegna, whose own Agony in the Garden hangs beside his. Giovanni Bellini was an Italian painter, of the Venetian Renaissance.

Painter, 1430 to 1516

Giovanni Bellini

Bellini painted in Venice for sixty years and taught the next generation, Giorgione and Titian among them. Dürer, visiting in 1506, wrote that he was very old and still the best painter of them all.

Born: 1430, Venice
Died: 1516, Venice
Movement: Venetian Renaissance
In London: 2 works in 1 museum

Where to see Giovanni Bellini in London

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

The National Gallery2 works

Doge Leonardo Loredan
about 1501 to 1502
The head of the Venetian state in his robe of white and gold damask and horned cap, as fixed as a marble bust, against plain blue. The painter's name is on a slip of paper stuck to the ledge.
The Agony in the Garden
about 1458 to 1460
Christ kneels on a rock at dawn while the disciples sleep and the soldiers wind along the road. The pink light on the undersides of the clouds is one of the first true sunrises in Italian painting.

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

The teacher of Giorgione and Titian
Brother-in-law of Andrea Mantegna, whose own Agony in the Garden hangs beside his

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

Giovanni Bellini: common questions

Where can you see Giovanni Bellini in London?: At the National Gallery: Doge Leonardo Loredan and The Agony in the Garden. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Giovanni Bellini's most famous work in London?: Doge Leonardo Loredan, of about 1501 to 1502, at the National Gallery. The head of the Venetian state in his robe of white and gold damask and horned cap, as fixed as a marble bust, against plain blue. The painter's name is on a slip of paper stuck to the ledge.
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?: The teacher of Giorgione and Titian. Brother-in-law of Andrea Mantegna, whose own Agony in the Garden hangs beside his. Giovanni Bellini was an Italian painter, of the Venetian Renaissance.