Bellini, Jacopo

Bellini, Jacopo an old Venetian painter, was born about 1405, and studied under Gentile Fabriano, and is said by Ridolfi to have been one of the most reputable painters of his day. There are several of his works in the public edifices at Venice, which were highly esteemed at the time, especially in the Church of the Confraternity of St. John the. Evangelist, representing different subjects from the lives of our Saviour and the Virgin. He died in 1470.