1496—Venice, Italy

In Gentile Bellini’s painting, Procession in Piazza San Marco. Venetian trumpeters and trombone in procession. The painting depicts an event said to have taken place approximately 50 years earlier—25 April 1444—when, during a procession on the square, Jacopo de’ Salis knelt before the relic (a fragment of the cross) in prayer that his dying son might recover, then, upon returning home, discovered that the boy was well again (Venice, Accademia; public domain). See detail and full image below.