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GIOVANNI BELLINI | Allegoria sacra | Uffizi, Sala 20 | Versione breve | La narrazione è di Samira Lahhane, la voce di Micaela Casalboni | Leggi la scheda completa dell'opera su uffizi.it    Giovanni Bellini | Holy Allegory | Room 20 Silence. I close my eyes, drag my feet over a smooth, cold surface. A floor in the finest marble takes me back to a distant past, when I was a child. I open my eyes and I am not alone: women, children, young and old men, crowd onto a large terrace overlooking a lake. It seems like a meeting, but it is not. There are prayers, but people are not looking at each other. The terrace is fenced, but with an opening leading down to the lake. The doors to my house were always open too. My father was a generous person. He used to say that those who needed help were to feel welcome. The Holy Allegory by Giovanni Bellini is one of the most mysterious works in art history. When it was painted, at the end of the 15th century, profane allegories were widespread, but not holy ones. Like