# The Healing of Pietro dei Ludovici [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLINI, Gentile]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on canvas, 369 x 259 cm ## Commentary The Healing of Pietro dei Ludovici c. 1501 Tempera on canvas, 369 x 259 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice This canvas depicts the healing of Pietro dei Ludovici. The miracle, which occurred through contact with a processional candle which had touched the relic of the Holy Cross, takes place inside a chapel which is in large part occupied by an extremely elegant ciborium surmounted by the eagle symbol of St John the Evangelist. This detail and also the triptych on the altar which recalls the one painted by Bastiani in his canvas depicting the "Donation of the Relic", suggests that Gentile Bellini wished here to set the scene in the interior of the church of St John the Evangelist. Echoing his father Jacopo's interest in Renaissance "umbratile", Gentile Bellini concentrates on the detailed rendering of the complex play of architectural surfaces within which human figures play their part. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Madonna and Child with Donors]() - [Mehmet II]() - [Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo \(detail\)]() - [Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo \(detail\)]() - [Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo]() - [Portrait of a Doge]() - [Portrait of Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus]() - [Portrait of Doge Giovanni Mocenigo]() - [Procession in Piazza San Marco \(detail\)]() - [Procession in Piazza San Marco \(detail\)]() - [Procession in Piazza San Marco \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()