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BELLINI, Giovanni: Pesaro Altarpiece (predella)

🖼 Pesaro Altarpiece (predella), 1471-74
Oil on wood
40 × 36 cm
Pesaro, Italy

Golden light bathes a procession of figures in Renaissance perspective, their robes rendered in luminous blues and reds against architectural depth. Bellini's predella panels revolutionized narrative altarpiece design, establishing intimate storytelling within devotional frameworks that influenced generations of Italian painters.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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