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Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini, late 1400s (Metropolitan Museum)

Giovanni Bellini, known as Giambellino, was born in Venice between 1430 and 1433. His father, Jacopo, set up an important workshop in Venice, where he taught his sons the craft. The eldest, Gentile, specialised in history painting; Giovanni was a versatile artist, and his sister Nicolosia married Andrea Mantegna in 1453.

Giovanni Bellini was born in Venice, roughly around 1430.In 1460, for the first time, Giovanni's name appears in the inscription of the altarpiece for the Gattamelata Chapel in the Basilica del Santo in Padua, in collaboration with his family. Between the same year and 1465, the painter almost certainly painted the Polyptych of St. Vincent Ferrer for the church of Saints John and Paul for the school of the same name.The Pesaro Altarpiece, dating to the following decade, now in the Museo Civico of the city in the Marche region, marks a point where Giovanni's knowledge is halfway between traditi

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