Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:
Allegory of Backbiting, This image shows an allegory. Here, the personification of backbiting is shown as a man emerging from a conch shell and intertwined with a snake. Two other men carry him in the shell., 1490-1495
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1567; Public Notes:
Allegory of Fortune, This image shows an allegory. Here, the personification of Fortune stands in the foreground, seen as a griffin-type figure, standing on two balls and holding two pitchers. There is a water and mountain landscape in the background., 1490-1495
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1565; Public Notes:
Allegory of Perserverance, This image shows an allegory of perserverance. Here, a Bacchus-like figure rides in a chariot pulled by putti. There is also a Mercury-like figure walking beside them with a shield and a spear., 1490-1495
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1563; Public Notes:
Allegory of Virtue, This image shows an allegory. Here, the personification of Virtue stands in the foreground on a pedestal, pointing at a reflection in a medallion she holds. Three putti acting as musicians are at her feet., 1490-1495
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1566; Public Notes:
Allegory, This image shows an allegory. Here, Venus sits in a boat surrounded by putti as she holds an orb, symbolic of the world., 1490-1495
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1564; Public Notes:
Apotheosis of St. Ursula and Companions, Painting depicts a scene from the martyrdom of Saint Ursula, a fourth century saint who was said to have been on a pilgrimage before her wedding with 11,000 virgin maidens, once arriving in Cologne the group was massacred by the huns. Here, the painting depicts Saint Ursula in glory with her maidens with a bushel of palm leaves centered, God the Father is depicted above with angels., ca. 1493-98
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.0934; Public Notes: Duplicate in box 268 SC.MSS.088.DUPL.0024
Arrival in Cologne, Painting depicts a scene from the martyrdom of Saint Ursula, a fourth century saint who was said to have been on a pilgrimage before her wedding with 11,000 virgin maidens, once arriving in Cologne the group was massacred by the huns. Here, the painting depicts a ship arriving at the port in Cologne. The port is bustling with ships and soldiers, one soldier takes a row boat out to greet the newly arriving ship and the league of people aboard., 1490
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.0879; Public Notes: Duplicate found in box 268 SC.MSS.088.DUPL.0022
Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani, This image shows a detail of Gentile Bellini's painting of the Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani. Shown in this detail is the head of the saint (in profile). Special attention is given to the facial features, and it is thought that Lorenzo sat for Bellini earlier (as this work was 10 years after Lorenzo's death)., 1465
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.0359; Public Notes: Originally in a folder marked, "Venezia 570" and "Opera Firmata e Datata 1465".
Christ and the Cananean Woman, This image shows the interaction between Jesus and the Canaanite woman who was asking for healing for her daughter., 1494-1500, Photographed in c. 1920-1930
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1140; Public Notes:
Christ in Pieta with the Madonna, Joseph of Arimathea, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Mary Magdalene, This image shows the deposition from the cross of the body of Christ. A gathering of people surrounds Him., 1489-92
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1273; Public Notes:
Christ the Redeemer Enthroned and Giving Communion to a Nun, This image shows Christ as Redeemer, sitting enthroned in decorated robes. With one hand, he opens his side wound to show, and with the other hand he offers a wafer to a kneeling penitent nun. Two angels hover around the top of the throne, holding banners., 1461-1478
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.0134; Public Notes:
Detail of Angel from: Madonna and Child with Saints Louis of Toulouse and Anna, with Saint John the Baptist as a child, This image shows a detail of the angel from the foreground in the scene of the Madonna and Child enthroned, with Saint John the Baptist as a child with the Christ Child, and Saint Louis of Toulouse to the left, and Saint Anna to the right., 1485-1525
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1196; Public Notes:
Five Allegories, This image shows a framed collection of five allegories., 1490-1495
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1562; Public Notes:
Healing of the daughter of Benvegnudo: detail, This image shows the miraculous healing of the daughter of Benvegnudo. Here, the child who was paralyzed is made able to use her limbs after touching three candles on the relic of the Holy Cross., 1506
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1235; Public Notes:
Healing of the daughter of Benvegnudo: detail, This image shows the miraculous healing of the daughter of Benvegnudo. Here, the child who was paralyzed is made able to use her limbs after touching three candles on the relic of the Holy Cross., 1506
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1236; Public Notes:
Healing of the daughter of Benvegnudo, This image shows the miraculous healing of the daughter of Benvegnudo. Here, the child who was paralyzed is made able to use her limbs after touching three candles on the relic of the Holy Cross., 1506
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1234; Public Notes:
Justice Personified, This image shows a detail from Saint Mark enthroned, with Saint Andrew to the left and Saint Louis of Toulouse to the right. Shown here is the figure of Justice who flanks the scene on the left., 1515-30
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.1291; Public Notes:
Legend of Saint Ursula: Saint Ursula in Glory: detail, This image shows a detail of Saint Ursula in glory with her maidens - within the Legend of Saint Ursula series., ca. 1493-98
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.0935; Public Notes:
Legend of Saint Ursula: Saint Ursula in Glory: detail, This image shows a detail of Saint Ursula in glory with her maidens - within the Legend of Saint Ursula series., ca. 1493-98
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.0936; Public Notes:
Legend of Saint Ursula: Saint Ursula in Glory: detail, This image shows a detail of Saint Ursula in glory with her maidens - within the Legend of Saint Ursula series., ca. 1493-98
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.VENI.0937; Public Notes:
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