Jacopo, Giovanni and Gentile Bellini: Family Lexicon on Show
The family dialogue between the three artists and the intergenerational transmission of 'savoir faire' at the Palazzo delle Paure for the seventh edition of 'Capolavoro per Lecco'
The Madonna and Child by Jacopo Bellini, tempera on panel transported on canvas datable to around 1450 (kept in the Galleria dell'Accademia Tadini in Lovere), the Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini, also tempera on panel datable to the artist's earliest production between 1450 and 1460 (and conserved in the Pinacoteca Malaspina in Pavia) and the Birth of the Virgin from Jacopo Bellini's workshop with the direct involvement of his sons Giovanni and Gentile (datable 1465 and conserved in the Galleria Sabauda of the Musei Reali in Turin) are exceptionally reunited at the Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco for the seventh edition of 'Capolavoro per Lecco', the exhibition event promoted by the Pastoral Community and the Cultural Association Madonna del Rosario, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Lecco.
The Bellini workshop
The choice this year went to the Bellini workshop - the father Jacopo and sons Giovanni and Gentile Bellini - Venetian artists who marked the beginning of the Renaissance in Venice with their work. "Familiar Lexicon.
La bottega dei Bellini e l'alba del Rinascimento a Venezia' (Bellini's workshop and the dawn of the Renaissance in Venice) is the title of this edition, curated by Giacomo Alberto Calogero of the University of Bologna, which showcases three masterpieces housed in as many galleries, created in a relatively short period of time, allowing us to explore the influence that the lesson of their father Jacopo had on his two sons Giovanni and Gentile, but also the inevitable stimuli that the two young heirs provided to their parent's art.
Jacopo, Giovanni and Gentile Bellini protagonists of Capolavoro per Lecco 2025
