Giovanni Bellini, the San Giobbe altarpiece, and the imitatio Christi

• Main Author: Dawson, Terence
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101506; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24164
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article explores some of the unexplored details of Giovanni Bellini's rightly famous altarpiece for San Giobbe: the choice of the six saints depicted, the emphasis on the gaze of each, the unusual expression of the Christ-child, the curious gesture that the Madonna makes with her left hand...