Draft:Cardinal Bessarion and Two Members of the Scuola della Carità in prayer with the Bessarion Reliquary

Cardinal Bessarion and Two Members of the Scuola della Carità in prayer with the Bessarion Reliquary
Cardinal Bessarion and Two Members of the Scuola della Carità in prayer with the Bessarion Reliquary is an egg-tempera on wood panel painted in c.1472-1473 by the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini. The painting depicts the Greek theologian Bessarion praying before the reliquary that he had donated to the Scuola della Carità in around 1462, alongside two members of the confraternity who similarly worship the object. The painting was commissioned by the Scuola della Carità to decorate the tabernacle that contained the reliquary.