Saint Louis of Toulouse Holding a Staff

Giovanni Bellini

1464

ink

From the collection of National Gallery of Art

Renaissance Renaissance Religious

About this work

The painting is called Saint Louis of Toulouse Holding a Staff. It was made in the early 1460s. The artist used pen and ink over stylus on laid paper, which was a common technique back then. This fact tells us something about how artists worked during that time. You can learn more about the movement that inspired this work, the Renaissance.