The Italian caption for this 1920s illustration reads: l ponte e el canale de San Lorenzo Sec XV dal quadro Il Miraculo della Santa Croce di Gentile Bellini Venice Academia (“The bridge and the canal of San Lorenzo Sec XV from the painting The Miraculous of the Holy Cross by Gentile Bellini - housed in Venice at the Academia).” The Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo (Italian: Miracolo della Croce caduta nel canale di San Lorenzo) is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Gentile Bellini, dating from 1500. It is now housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in commissio
The Italian caption for this 1920s illustration reads: l ponte e el canale de San Lorenzo Sec XV dal quadro Il Miraculo della Santa Croce di Gentile Bellini Venice Academia (“The bridge and the canal of San Lorenzo Sec XV from the painting The Miraculous of the Holy Cross by Gentile Bellini - housed in Venice at the Academia).” The Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo (Italian: Miracolo della Croce caduta nel canale di San Lorenzo) is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Gentile Bellini, dating from 1500. It is now housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in commission was for nine paintings, the subject to be the miracles of a fragment of the True Cross. The latter had been donated to the brotherhood by Philippe de Mézières (or Filippo Maser), chancellor of the Kingdom of Cyprus and Jerusalem in 1369, and soon became the object of veneration in the city. The canvasses were all executed in 1496–1501.
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