In 1912, Mrs. Bernard Berenson, the wife of the famed Renaissance art scholar, described Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" (c. 1480) as "the most beautiful Bellini in existence ...

Giovanni Bellini’s “St. Francis in the Desert” is regarded by many as the most beautiful painting in America. I’m with the many — although I reserve the right to nominate another ...

The experience I had was firmly focused on this famous painting by Giovanni Bellini ... In a way, the hallucination was true to Bellini's art. It picked up on actual qualities in the picture.

Leave off, in 1515, with Giovanni Bellini’s portrait of a particular ... (Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Published in the print edition of the March 19, 2012, issue.