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Description: | When Archibald McLellan acquired this great Venetian panel from Edward Solly, an English banker who sold a great part of his collection to the Royal house of Prussia for the foundation of the Königliches Museum at Berlin, it was thought to be by Giorgione. It is of a type of painting made popular by Giovanni Bellini, in Italian known as Sacra conversazione, a silent gathering of saints with the Madonna and infant Jesus in their midst. The painting is one of the few monumental altar paintings in British museum collections. The instruments the angels are playing are recorded as a viola da braccio and a lute. | Subjects: | St John the Evangelist St Peter figure; religion (Virgin and Child St Sebastian); landscape St John the Baptist | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bellini, Giovanni (Italian painter, born 1431-1436, died 1516) Æ School of Previously attributed to Giorgione (Italian artist, 1477-1510) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8809... | Go to resource |
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