Episode 159 - Venice: Gentile Bellini, Vittorio Carpaccio and the Relic of the True Cross
Rebuilding The Renaissance
English - February 02, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 202 ratingsArts History architecture florence milan renaissance rome art history italy painting sculpture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 158 - Venice: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Job Altarpiece"
At the end of the 15th century, large-scale-cyclical-narrative paintings became quite popular in Renaissance Venice. One of these cycles illustrates in spectacular fashion the legends of the relic of the True Cross that was owned by the Scuola Grande of St. John the Evangelist. This episode examines the three most important paintings of this cycle, which were executed by two of Venice's most important painters.