All students of the history of Italian art know that precious collection of 99 drawings on paper by Jacopo Bellini, the father of Gentile and of Giovanni Bellini, and father-in-law of Mantegna ...

Giovanni, the Bellini of this show’s title, relished using Mantegna’s ideas to emerge from Jacopo’s shadow, ultimately becoming the greatest Venetian artist of the quattrocento.

Until recently, scholars had generally supposed he was born around 1435, give or take five years on either side, and that he was the son of Jacopo Bellini, another celebrated painter and draftsman.