He was sent by the Venetian state to Constantinople in 1479 in response to Sultan Muhammad II's request for a good portraitist.
He was sent by the Venetian state to Constantinople in 1479 in response to Sultan Muhammad II's request for a good portraitist. Some of his most beautiful works date from his year's sojourn there, including a portrait of the sultan and a watercolor portrait of a boy scribe which reflects the influence of the Islamic painting style. Most of the latter were destroyed by a fire in the Doges' Palace in 1579, but three Miracles of the True Cross survive to establish their character. Set in contemporary Venice, they are pictorially somewhat dry but valuable as circumstantially accurate records of the city and its people in his time. FTP, name this Venetian painter, the son of Jacopo and brother of Giovanni.
He was sent by the Venetian state to Constantinople in 1479 in response to Sultan Muhammad II's request for a good portraitist.
Gentile Bellini