Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Collection:	ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:	Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Image View:	Detail, St. Joseph, which may be a portrait of Jacopo Bellini
Creator:	Giovanni Bellini (Italian painter, ca.1431-1516)
Location:	repository: Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note:	Palazzo Querini Stampalla, Santa Maria Formosa, Castello 5252
GPS:	+45.436434+12.340927
Date:	ca. 1469 (creation)
Cultural Context:	Italian
Style Period:	Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:	panel painting
Classification:	Paintings
Material:	oil paint on wood panel
Technique:	oil painting (technique)
Measurements:	80 cm (height) x 105 cm (width)
Subjects:	New Testament; portrait; Judaism; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Venetian; Holy Family
Description:	The panel was first attributed to Giovanni Bellini in 1916; until then it had been considered a work of Mantegna, partly owing to a spurious inscription on the back of the work probably added in the eighteenth century. Due to strong compositional similarities it has always been linked to Mantegna's Presentation, now in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. That painting, dated 1454-1455, is the first example of a scenic representation of half-length figures in a single space. Various identifications have been proposed for the figures present in the Querini Stampalia panel: Giovanni and Andrea Mantegna to the right; Nicolosia Bellini and the mother of the artist, Anna Bellini, to the left; and perhaps Jacopo Bellini in the figure of Saint Joseph or in that of the High Priest. (Andrea Mantegna was the artist's brother-in-law.) Recent conservation imaging revealed the under-drawing and confirmed the painting is by Bellini. (Source: Pinacoteca Querini Stampalla [website]; http://www.querinistampalia.org)
Collection:	Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:	7A1-BELLINI-VSJ-PC-A05
Rights:	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.