Category:True Cross cycle (Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista)

True Cross cycle 

cycle of paintings from the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
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Instance of	cycle of paintings
Depicts	True Cross
Location	Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista Gallerie dell'Accademia
Has part(s)	Miracle of the Holy Cross at the Rialto Bridge (1) Miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross in Campo San Lio (2) The Relic of the Holy Cross is offered to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista (3) Procession in St. Mark's Square (4) Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo (5) The Healing of Pietro dei Ludovici (6) The Miraculous Healing of the Daughter of Benvegnudo of San Polo (7) Miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross (8)
Inception	1490s
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The Confraternity of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice called upon the most respected Venetian painters of the period, including Pietro Perugino, Vittore Carpaccio, Gentile Bellini, Giovanni Mansueti, Lazzaro Bastiani and Benedetto Diana to paint nine canvases for the Great Hall of their headquarters showing the Miracles of the Holy Cross, the story of the miracles performed by the fragment of wood from the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. This fragment had been donated to the brotherhood in 1369 by Philippe de Mézières, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Cyprus and Jerusalem, and had soon become an object of great veneration and the symbol of the Scuola, one of the most important and wealthy Venetian confraternities.

The canvas painted by Perugino has been lost, but the eight surviving paintings executed between 1494 and 1502, contain depictions of some of the most famous parts of Venice. Originally they were in Sala dell'Albergo (o della Croce) of the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista. Since the suppression of the schools in 1797 by a Napoleon edict and the fall of the Venetian Republic the cycle is house in the Accademia Galleries. Gallerie dell'accademia

1. Vittore Carpaccio, Miracle of the Holy Cross at the Rialto Bridge (The Healing of the Madman) (1494)
2. Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti, Miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross in Campo San Lio (c. 1494)
3. Lazzaro Bastiani, The Relic of the Holy Cross is offered to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista (c. 1494)
4. Gentile Bellini, Procession of the True Cross in piazza San Marco (1496)
5. Gentile Bellini, Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo (1500)
6. Gentile Bellini, Healing of Pietro dei Ludovici (1501)
7. Giovanni Mansueti, The Miraculous Healing of the Daughter of Benvegnudo of San Polo (c. 1505)
8. Benedetto Diana, Miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross (1505–1510)