"Painting at the end of the earth: Venetian painter Gentile Bellini’s journey to Istanbul created a bridge to the
By Chris Bergeron/ Daily News Staff
Sunday, December 25, 2005 - Updated: 01:22 AM EST
In 1479 artist Gentile Bellini traveled from his native Venice to Istanbul to serve as the court painter for an ambitious Ottoman sultan.
More than five centuries later, Bellini’s surviving work from his two-year residence in the court of Mehmed II have completed an equally remarkable journey to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
The resulting show, 'Gentile Bellini and the East,' delivers many of the surprises of the artist’s sojourn as an improbable conduit between thoroughly disparate cultures. "
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