\paperw3795 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b GIOVANNI BATTISTA CIMA DA CONEGLIANO\par
\b0 Italian painter\par
(Conegliano c. 1459\i - \i0 c\i . \i0 1517)\par
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Born at
Conegliano, he worked for almost the whole of his professional career in Venice. The fundamentals of his early style reveal the influence of \b \cf4 \ATXht1148 Giovanni Bellini\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 alongside echoes of Alvise Vivarini. For the most part he pa
inted altarpieces with religious subjects, for churches in Venice as well as on the mainland of Veneto, and in the nineties he became the chief exponent of religious painting in the city. In his works volumes and space are constructed in a rigorously arc
hitectural manner derived from Bellini and Antonello, establishing a relationship of limpid harmony between the figures and architecture, steeped in the clear light of the Veneto landscape.