Bellini\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , he took a strong interest in the innovations introduced to Venice by Antonello da Messina and the Northern European ideas proposed by Albrecht Dⁿrer. During a stay in Rome he came into contact with the works of \b \cf4 \ATXht1201 Raphael\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , which had a decisive influence on the evolution of his artistic personality. He was a sensitive, unstable and restless artist, concerned with troubling moral and religious problems. He proposed a non-courtly and psychologically
subtle language inclined toward traditional Lombardian naturalism, which he absorbed during his long stay in Bergamo. His work, pervaded by a subtle vein of anti-classicism, is recognized as a genuine ôalternativeö to the current of Venetian tonal painting
represented by Giorgione and Titian and to the courtly style of sixteenth-century classicism.
