Gentile Bellini

Description: (Italian Painter and One of the Founders of the Orientalist Tradition in Western Painting)
Gentile Bellini was an Italian painter affiliated with the school of Venice. He hailed from Venice's leading family of painters and was the official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice. He worked for the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in Constantinople for several months. He was a co-founder of the Orientalist tradition in Western painting.  

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Died on February 23, 1507
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