The Bessarion reliquary

Images related to Gentile Bellini's painting Cardinal Bessarion attended by the two brothers of the Scuola della Carita in prayer with the Bessarion reliquary (National Gallery, London) can be found in the gallery section.

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Primary sources

Author	Joannes Baptista Schioppalalba
Title	In perantiquam sacram tabulam Graecam insigni Sodalitio Sanctae Mariae Caritatis Venetiarum ab Amplissimo Cardinali Bessarione dono datam dissertatio
Date	1767
Publisher	Typiis Modesti Fentii
City	Venice
Holdings	National Art Library
Details	Includes The text of the donation of the reliquary to the Scuola (August 1463) Bessarion's letter consigning the reliquary to the Scuola (May 1472) Aliotti's letter describing the installation of the reliquary (July 1472)

On Bessarion

Author	Jacquilyne E. Martin
Title	Cardinal Bessarion, Mystical Theology, and Spiritual Union between East and West
Date	2000
Publisher	PhD thesis
City	University of Manitoba
Holdings	ProQuest

Author	John Monfasani
Title	Byzantine scholars in Renaissance Italy : Cardinal Bessarion and other emigres
Date	1995
Publisher	Variorum
City	Aldershot

Author	Henri Vast
Title	Le Cardinal Bessarion
Date	1878
Publisher
City	Paris

On the reliquary and Bellini

Author	Gianfranco Fiaccadori (ed)
Title	Bessarione e l'umanesimo: exhibition catalogue
Date	1994
Publisher	Vivarium
City	Naples
Details	Renato Polacco: La stauroteca di cardinal Bessarione

Author
Title	Saggi e Memorie di storia dell' arte vol. 18
Date	1992
Publisher	Olschki
City	Florence
Details	Renato Polacco: La Storia del Reliquario Bessarion e dopo il Rinvenimento del Verso della Croce Scomparso

Author
Title	Arte Documento vol. 6
Date	1992
Publisher	Electa
City	Milan
Details	Renato Polacco: La Storia del Reliquario Bessarion e dopo il Rinvenimento del Verso della Croce Scomparso

Author	Jurg Meyer zur Capellen
Title	Gentile Bellini
Date	1985
Publisher	Steiner
City	Stuttgart