BELLINI, Giovanni
(b. ca. 1426, Venezia, d. 1516, Venezia)

Pietà (detail)

1505
Oil on wood
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

In the background, beyond the emblematic fig-tree, rises a walled city in which the main buildings of Vicenza can be identified: the Duomo, the Torre, the pre-Palladian basilica, as well as the bell-tower of Sant'Appolinare Nuovo in Ravenna and the Natisone at Cividale.