History & The Arts
Art in Renaissance Venice
...psychologically distant.’ Most important, she concludes, ‘the austerity of mood, as of image, associates his works with the Byzantine tradition’, in effect rendering them ‘the Western equivalent of the icons of the East’. 30 Figure 7 Giovanni Bellini, Madonna Greca, c.1470, panel, 82 × 62 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Used with the permission of the Ministero...