The Mystery of Giovanni Bellini
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59m
Join Dr. Maze for a presentation about his groundbreaking research that reveals what has long remained a mystery: the early life and career of one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance, Giovanni Bellini, an artist revered for his mastery of color, atmosphere, and light. Demonstrating that Bellini was born more than a decade earlier than previously thought, Maze explores a hitherto unknown period in the artist's life that begins with the tragic events surrounding Bellini's birth, his unusual upbringing in Venice, and his first-known works of art.
Daniel Wallace Maze grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and majored in Philosophy at Williams College in Massachusetts. He completed his Masters and Ph.D. in the History of Renaissance Art at UCLA in 2013. That year his article “Giovanni Bellini: Birth, Parentage, and Independence" in Renaissance Quarterly was runner-up for the Harvard University/Villa I Tatti Prize for Best Published Essay by a Junior Scholar. He held the Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence from 2011-2013, a Fulbright Scholarship in the History of Art at the University of York from 2016-17, and the Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Huntington from 2017-2018. He is Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and the Fountiene Lee Duda Faculty Fellow of Renaissance Art at the University of Iowa.
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