The Miracle of Host

1512 · Sala Capitolare, Scuola del Santo, Padua

religious

In this scene on the end wall of the room, a donkey that has been starved for days kneels kneels down before the Host rather than eating the food offered it. The animal's owner, who had doubted that the Eucharist was holy, is converted from his lack of faith.

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About the Artist

Francesco Vecellio

1475 – 1560

Italian painter, part of a family of painters of which the most famous was his younger brother Titian (Tiziano Vecellio). Other members of the family are Orazio Vecellio (c. 1525-1576, son of Titian), Marco Vecellio (1545-1611, son of Francesco), Tizianello (Tiziano Vecellio, c. 1570-1650, son of Marco). In his youth, Francesco was a soldier. As a painter, he was mainly active in 1520-1530s in Cadore. In 1524, he signed an altarpiece for San Vito in Cadore. In 1540s, he painted a polyptych at Candide. In late 1540s he painted the organ shutters of San Salvatore in Venice. He painted an Annunciation for San Nicola di Bari, now in Accademia, Venice.

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