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The Relic of the Holy Cross is offered to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Lazzaro Bastiani
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A hand-painted replica of the Bastiani panel showing the relic of the Holy Cross presented to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, prized for its civic pageantry and Venetian detail.
Description
Description
Historians of Venetian painting have long read this canvas as much for what it records as for what it depicts: the ceremonial handover of a relic of the Holy Cross to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, staged with the gravity due one of the great confraternities of the Venetian republic. Later observers have treated it less as devotional image than as civic document, a window onto how the city wanted its institutions and their piety remembered.
About Relic of the Holy Cross Is
Return to the canvas itself and the reasons for that reading become plain. The composition arranges robed dignitaries, attendant clergy, and architectural framing into a wide, orderly gathering, every figure placed to register rank and role within the scene. Bastiani builds the picture through pattern and repetition rather than dramatic gesture, letting the rhythm of fabric, gesture, and posture carry the weight of ceremony.
The handling of light is even and descriptive, favouring the legibility of costume and setting over dramatic contrast, and the palette holds to the warm, slightly muted tonality typical of Venetian narrative painting in this period. Bastiani worked within the tradition that Gentile Bellini and his contemporaries were shaping for the Scuole Grandi, in which sacred subject matter doubled as a record of institutional identity, and this canvas belongs to that documentary strand of his output rather than to smaller devotional commissions.
A hand-painted oil painting reproduction of this work is built by a trained artist working directly on canvas, matching the tonal range and the particular density of the original palette rather than approximating it through print. The layered application of oil colour lets the surface hold the texture of fabric folds and architectural detail with real depth, so the finished replica reads as a painted object with its own brushwork and surface, not a flat copy.
The hand-painted reproduction
This is a picture suited to a room built around quiet, sustained looking rather than immediate impact, and to a collector drawn to the civic and religious life of Renaissance Venice as much as to its more famous portraiture. It also makes a considered gift for anyone with a standing interest in the Scuole Grandi or in narrative painting of this kind.
- Hand-painted reproduction in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the intended wall
- Gallery-ready presentation on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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