St John the Evangelist

Jacopo Bellini's Saint John the Evangelist at the Gemaldegalerie Berlin, painted around 1432, depicts the author of the Fourth Gospel. As the patriarch of Venice's most important painting family, Jacopo Bellini's works document the crucial transition from Gothic to Renaissance in Venetian art Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship It is now held at The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, housing one of the wor

The evangelist is rendered with Jacopo Bellini's evolving style, combining the decorative gold-ground tradition with emerging naturalistic observation in the figure's face and drapery.