Madonna and Child, late 1480s, Oil on wood, 35 x 28 in. (88. 9 x 71. 1 cm), Paintings, Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venice, active by 1459?died 1516 Venice), Few artists changed as radically as Bellini. This beautiful picture was painted in the late 1480s and in its rounded forms, diffuse lighting, employment of a viscous oil medium, and innovative, asymmetrical composition it looks ahead to the work of Giorgione and Titian, who Bellini taught