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2005-11-28 11:22 PiCo 959×672×8 (142886 bytes) John the Baptist, by Giovanni Bellini, c.1500-1504. From Web Gallery of Art. http://www.wga.hu/index1.html. Web Gallery of Art has given permission for use of images on Wikipedia. Artist has been dead over 100 years.
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Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Saint
1500-04
Oil on panel, 54 x 76 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
The work was certainly executed before 1504, since Previtali repeats the figure of the Baptist in one of his dated paintings. It is one of the artist's loftiest and most beautiful "Sacred Conversations", on the one hand embodying the still 15th century idea of a separation between the figures and the landscape behind (the communion of the two would be achieved with the Madonna of the Meadow some years later), though at the same time characterized by a landscape that is laid out in the realization of a unitary naturalistic vision with limpid atmospheric values.
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Author: BELLINI, Giovanni
Title: Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Saint
Time-line: 1451-1500
School: Italian
Form: painting