_Benedetto Diana_ (Venetian: died 1525).
"If Benedetto be the painter of the fine picture of 'Christ
at Emmaus,' in the church of St. Salvatore, Venice, still
attributed in the guidebooks to Giovanni Bellini, he must have
been an artist of no ordinary merit, and one who gradually,
from an unpromising commencement of his artistic career,
attained a high place among the followers of the master. A
half-length figure, larger than life, of the Saviour in the
act of blessing, signed with the painter's name, in private
possession at Venice, although in a very damaged condition, has
a grand and impressive character not unworthy of Bellini, to
whom, as to other Venetian masters of note, many works by Diana
in sundry collections are ascribed. He was employed with the
two Bellini and Alvise Vivarini in decorating the hall of the
Ducal Palace" (Layard's ed. of Kugler, 1887, p. 333).