Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Procession of the True Cross in the Piazza San Marco

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Procession of the True Cross in the Piazza San Marco
Alternate Title: 
Procession in Piazza San Marco
Image View: 
Detail, the reliquary holding a fragment of the True Cross is carried in the procession
Creator: 
Gentile Bellini (Italian painter, ca. 1429-1507)
Location: 
repository: Galleria dell'Accademia (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note: 
Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050
GPS: 
+45.4315+12.3281
Date: 
1496 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
tempera and oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
painting and painting techniques
Measurements: 
367 cm (height) x 745 cm (width)
Subjects: 
architecture; cityscape; cycles or series; Catholic Church; Venetian; religious processions; relics; reliquary
Description: 
Gentile was the son of Jacopo Bellini. He became an official painter of the Venetian Republic and was the dominant figure in Venetian art for several decades in the latter half of the 15th century. He is most noted for portraits and large narrative paintings in which the city and its inhabitants are depicted in great detail. He worked on the decoration of the Sala della Croce of the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice, supervising a team of artists. The decoration comprised eight paintings of scenes from the Legend of the True Cross (Venice, Accad.), of which Gentile painted three: the Procession of the True Cross in the Piazza S Marco is one. The Procession shows the elaborate façade of San Marco with a perspectival view of the crowded piazza and a procession bearing the reliquary crossing the foreground. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A1-BELLINI-PSM-A06
Rights: 
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