Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria, 1504–1507, in the Brera in Milan – A monumental vision of Venice’s patron saint in an exotic setting, blending spectacle with devotion. The blend of Venetian grandeur and Eastern fantasy makes it both a devotional scene and a dazzling portrait of Renaissance Venice’s fascination with the wider world.
Commissioned from Gentile but after his death finished by his brother Giovanni