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Item Number: 121126
Title: GIOVANNI BELLINI's 'Dudley Madonna'
Author: Mazzotta, Antonio
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781907372469
Description: London: Holberton, 2012. 30cm., pbk., 104pp. illus., most in color. Summary: The Virgin Mary rises up like a giant of Babel in a close-up view, separated from us by a slender railing along which runs the painter's signature. The Virgin appears to be sitting on a marble slab, slightly raised, and her right shoulder is thrust forward to show us her nude son. Madonna and Child, also known as 'Dudley Madonna', was painted in c. 1508 by Giovanni Bellini (Venice, c. 1430–1516), one of the most celebrated of Italian artists. This book tells the story of the painting, its painter and its provenance – the journey from Bellini's 16th-century Bologna to Dudley's 19th-century London – and the context in which it was created, and later collected. It is not known how and when the painting came from Bologna to England, but it is very likely that it was acquired in Bologna by John William Ward (1817–1885) who in 1827 became the 1st Earl of Dudley. he was one of the outstanding English collectors of the 19th century, described by his contemporaries as a cultured and educated man, but also, especially in his later years, tending to madness. The years 1505–10 were crucial ones in Giovanni Bellini's career, and this book examines anew the part he played in Venetian High Renaissance painting – his influence upon and response to the upcoming Giorgione, Titian and Sebastiano; it looks in particular at the importance of the visit to the Venice of the Florentine Fra Bartolommeo in 1508.
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