Marco Basaiti (c. 1470 – 1530) was a Venetian painter and a rival of Giovanni Bellini. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Giovanni Bellini (c 1430 – 1516 was an Italian Renaissance painter probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters His best known works are Christ Praying in the Garden (1516) and the Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew.

Christ praying in the Garden

Thought to have originated in the Balkans, his date of birth and arrival in Venice are not known, but he began to paint actively around 1496. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the He is generally believed to have learned to paint in the workshops of Alvise Vivarini. Alvise or Luigi Vivarini, (c 1446 &ndash 1502 was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Basaiti worked primarily with religious themes, but he also did portraits. Contrary to the trends of the time, he used very bright colours in rendering his religious subjects.

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