Jacopo Bellini, c. (1396–1470),

• Was an Italian painter.
• His sons Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, and his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna, were also famous painters.

• Few of Bellini's paintings still exist, but his surviving sketch-books show an interest in landscape and elaborate architectural design and are his most important legacy.

• Bellini was born in Venice.

• Jacopo had probably been a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano.

• In Padua he trained a young Andrea Mantegna in perspective and classicist themes.

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