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The Procession in St. Mark's Square (Italian: Processione in Piazza San Marco) is a 1496 oil painting by Italian Renaissance artist Gentile Bellini. Bellini was a leading Venetian painter in the fifteenth century. The painting depicts a miracle that occurred during the Feast of Saint Mark over fifty years earlier on 25 April 1444.
Artist | Gentile Bellini |
Year | c. 1496 |
Medium | Tempera and oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 367 cm x 745 cm |
Location | Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
It belongs to a series of paintings that portray Miracles of the Holy Cross commissioned for the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, which housed a relic of the True Cross. The True Cross became an object of veneration in Venice and symbolizes the Scuola. During the Napoleonic era the painting came into public ownership. In 1820 it moved to the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, where it resides today.