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 Philip de Meziиres, 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 1496 and 1501, contain depictions of some of the most famous parts of Venice.
# Vittore Carpaccio, '''Miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross (The Healing of the Madman)''' (1494)
# Giovanni Mansueti, '''Miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross in Campo San Lio''' (c. 1494) [[:Category:Miracle of the Holy Cross at Rialto]]
# Lazzaro Bastiani, '''The Relic of the Holy Cross is offered to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista''' (c. 1494)
# Gentile Bellini, '''Procession of the True Cross''' (1496)
# Gentile Bellini, '''Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo''' (1500)
# Gentile Bellini, '''Healing of Pietro dei Ludovici''' (1501)
# Giovanni Mansueti, '''The Miraculous Healing of the Daughter of Benvegnudo of San Polo''' (c. 1505)
# Benedetto Diana, '''Miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross''' (1505-1510)
[[Category:Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista (Venice)]]
[[Category:True cross]]
[[Category:History of Venice]]
[[Category:Painting in the Accademia Galleries (Venice)|Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista]]
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