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This canvas depicts the healing of Pietro dei Ludovici. The miracle, which occurred through contact with a processional candle which had touched the relic of the Holy Cross, takes place inside a chapel which is in large part occupied by an extremely elegant ciborium surmounted by the eagle symbol of St John the Evangelist. This detail and also the triptych on the altar which recalls the one painted by Bastiani in his canvas depicting the "Donation of the Relic", suggests that Gentile Bellini wished here to set the scene in the interior of the church of St John the Evangelist. Echoing his father Jacopo's interest in Renaissance "umbratile", Gentile Bellini concentrates on the detailed rendering of the complex play of architectural surfaces within which human figures play their part.
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