Bellini meaning

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A cocktail made of champagne or sparkling wine, sugar, and puréed fruit, often peaches or strawberries.
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Family of Venetian painters, including Jacopo (1400?–1470?), most of whose works have been lost, and his two sons, Gentile (1429?–1507) and Giovanni (1430?–1516). Giovanni, the most illustrious of the three, profoundly influenced the Venetian school of painting with his interest in light and color. His works include Saint Francis in Ecstasy.
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A cocktail consisting of champagne or other sparkling wine with peach juice.
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(person) 1429?-1507; Venetian painter: son of Jacopo.
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(person) 1430?-1516; Venetian painter: teacher of Titian: son of Jacopo.
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(person) 1400?-70?; Venetian painter.
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(person) 1801-35; It. operatic composer.
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Alternative capitalization of Bellini.
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Origin of bellini

  • After Giovanni Bellini (from the fact that the color of the drink reminded its inventor of a color used in one of Bellini's paintings)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bellini Sentence Examples

  • As the youth progressed in his studies, he came under the influence of Jacopo Bellini, a painter considerably superior to Squarcione, father of the celebrated painters Giovanni and Gentile, and of a daughter Nicolosia; and in 1454 Jacopo gave Nicolosia to Andrea in marriage.

  • The remarkably definite and original style formed by Mantegna may be traced out as founded on the study of the antique in Squarcione's atelier, followed by a diligent application of principles of work exemplified by Paolo Uccello and Donatello, with the practical guidance and example of Jacopo Bellini in the sequel.

  • Giovanni Bellini, in his earlier works, obviously followed the lead of his brother-in-law Andrea.

  • Instead of the present boat, with its heavy black cabin and absence of colouring, the older forms had an awning of rich stuffs or gold embroideries, supported on a light arched framework open at both ends; this is the gondola still seen in Carpaccio's and Gentile Bellini's pictures (c. 150o).

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