"The Dawn of the Venetian Renaissance: Jacopo Bellini and Antonio Vivarini"

The first two Venetian artists to actively respond to the artistic trends coming out of Florence in the 15th century were Jacopo Bellini and Antonio Vivarini, who founded the two dynasties that were to dominate the early Renaissance in Venice. Jacopo, the older and more inventive of the two, was trained by the International Gothic master, Gentile da Fabriano; while Vivarini’s more conservative artistic output was limited to altarpieces in richly gilded and elaborately carved frames.