| Pesaro Altarpiece | |
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| Artist | Giovanni Bellini |
| Year | c. 1471–1483 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 262 cm × 240 cm (103 in × 94 in) |
| Location | Civic Museum of Palazzo Mosca, Pesaro |
The Pesaro Altarpiece (Italian: Pala di Pesaro) is an oil-on-panel painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Bellini, dated to some time between 1471 and 1483. It is considered one of Bellini's first mature works, though there are doubts on its dating and on who commissioned it. The work's technique is not only an early use of oils but also of blue smalt, a by-product of the glass industry. It had already been used in the Low Countries in Bouts' 1455 The Entombment, but this marked smalt's first use in Italian art, twenty years before Leonardo da Vinci used it in Ludovico il Moro's apartments in Milan in 1492. Bellini also uses the more traditional lapis lazuli and azurite for other blues in the work.[1]
It was originally located in San Francesco church in Pesaro in Marche, when that church was suppressed under the French occupation in 1797. The altarpiece was initially moved to the city council and after various issues it was entrusted to the city's art museum, where it still hangs.[2]
- ^ (in Italian) Mauro Lucco, Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, Giovanni Bellini, Silvana Editoriale, Milano 2008. ISBN 9788836611331
- ^ (in Italian) Pierluigi De Vecchi ed Elda Cerchiari, I tempi dell'arte, volume 2, Bompiani, Milano 1999. ISBN 88-451-7212-0