God the Father over the Piazza San Marco

This is the central part of the triptych, with flanking panels devoted to the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Annunciate, the whole of which once hung in the Camera degli Imprestidi (“Loan Office”) in the Palazzo dei Camerlinghi. Its mutilation and separation into three parts (the other two also at the Gallerie) took place at an uncertain date, but not before 1808, the year of an inventory identifying the work as still united.

The bird’s-eye view of the Piazza San Marco includes the Loggetta, which means that the painting could not have been executed before 1540, the year the Loggetta was finished.