Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Sebastian, and Three Music-Making Angels

Giovanni Bellini's Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, John the Baptist and Paul of around 1525, one of his last documented works painted when he was over ninety, demonstrates the sustained technical mastery and spiritual depth that characterized his entire career. The late sacra conversazione achieves a luminous atmospheric quality and a simplicity of means that reflects a lifetime's refinement — the supreme master of the Venetian devotional tradition arriving at a final synthesis that influenced the next two generations of painters.

This work demonstrates Giovanni Bellini's command of Renaissance-period painting techniques.