Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter whose long and successful career saw him starting with Quattrocento styles and eventually progressing towards more advanced post-Giorgione styles. He was a scion of a famous Venetian artistic family, the Bellini’s and was considerably the most successful and famed painters among them. The Venetian artistic milieu included his father Jacopo Bellini who remained one of the prominent artists since the beginning of the Renaissance. Others are his brother Gentile and Andrea Mantegna, who came under the tutelage of Jacob Bellini and later became Giovanni’s brother-in-law. Giovanni’s knowledge of outdoor light that reflected in his vibrant and sensuous oil paintings with detailed shades was path-breaking in such a way that a viewer can imagine the season as well as the time of the day from his creations. The first two decades of his career witnessed his penchant towards conventional religious subjects such as ‘St. Jerome in the Desert’, ‘Crucifixions’, ‘The Blood of the Redeemer’ and ‘Pietàs’. He was open to new techniques and experiments that saw him emerge as a leading landscape painter. His professional as well as personal life was marked with fame, success and tranquillity. He was an enthusiast who always yearned to hone his skills and learn new styles and themes from new artists including his pupils like Titian and Giorgione. Even though some of his significant works were lost with time or destroyed by fire, some of his revered pieces like the ‘Feast of the Gods’ and ‘San Giobbe Altarpiece’ still exists.