The father of the Venetian Renaissance comes to Paris for a large exhibition - it’s happening at the Musée Jacquemart-André, the extraodinary home-museum nestled in the heart of the capital, which, among its numerous treasures, holds a healthy collection of Italian painting. To the dismay of the master of the house Nélie Jacquemart, the collecting couple of Boulevard Haussmann were only able to acquire one painting by Giovanni Bellini, The Enthroned Madonna. Today, this void is filled, thanks to masterpieces arriving from all over Europe, such as Christ Held Up by the Angels and the splendid Madonna with Child from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, or the Saint Justina from the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan, as well as three precious paintings from private collections which have never been displayed before. The exhibition covers the entire career of Bellini, highlighting how, during his life, this great painter never stopped evolving, integrating experiences and innovations he encountered into his work - the perspectives of Mantegna, the sculptural forms of Donatello, the Flemish taste for detail, the oil painting of Antonello da Messina, the colour and light of the young Giorgione and Tiziano… Step by step, the development of the style of Bellini emerges in comparisons with the masterpieces of his illustrious colleagues - immersed in the context of its time, the art of the master is revealed as a plot of correspondence and inspirations that, synthesised into a totally original language, give life to the adventure of the Renaissance in the Lagoon City.
