The bibliography about Giovanni Bellini from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century is essentially in the writings of Marcantonio Michiel, Paolo Pino, Giorgio Vasari, Francesco Sansovino, Carlo Ridolfi, Marco Boschini, Anton Maria Zanetti, Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Giovanni Morelli, Gustavo Frizzoni, Pompeo Molmenti, Bernard Berenson and Roger Fry. The author of the present paper decided to turn to the writings published about the artist in the twentieth century, and the article critically examines the art-historical literature on the painter in the above period.