Giovanni Bellini’s Lamentation Altarpiece for Santa Maria dei Servi in Venice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Cultural Transfer in Microcosm 1
5. The Life of the Virgin at the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua and San Marco, Venice 19
6. The Eclectic Taste of the Gattamelata Family 29
7. Calligraphy, Epigraphy, and the Paduan- Venetian Culture of Letters in the Early Renaissance 41
8. Cultural Exchanges in Venice, for an Artistic “Archive of Memory” 61
9. Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini 79
10. Giovanni Bellini’s Lamentation Altarpiece for Santa Maria dei Servi in Venice 93
11. The Perplexing Problem of Portraits and Parapets 111
12. Cassandræ Fidelis venetæ literis clarissimæ in Padua 123
13. Venetian Affirmation and Urban Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Padua 137
14. Authors 151
15. Picture Credits 155
16. Index 157
17. Plates 161