Giovanni Bellini, The Dudley Madonna

Book Review.  By Giuseppe Marasco Bellini is one of the most celebrated and influential Italian artists. Venetian. Pioneering portrayal of natural light. Dürer thought him the best of all artists. popularizer of the “eyewitness” style. The most famous work of his in England was the Doge Leonardo Loredan  at the National Gallery. The past tense is…

In Abstratto – Italians Do it Better

In Abstratto – A must-see show, extraordinarily heterogenous and dynamic life in paint-collection and outlook. The idiosyncratic and the unique. A Wonder Room of over 50 Abstract Italian artists. To open up a catalogue from the MoMa, Guggenheim and so on is to see just how much of the history of modern art has been written…