It is one of four triptychs produced between 1464 and 1470 for Santa Maria della Carità, Venice, which had been rebuilt in the 1450s and whose altars were built between 1460 and 1464. The other three are the San Lorenzo, Madonna and Nativity Triptychs. They were probably all planned by Giovanni's father Jacopo. Giovanni's contribution to the actual painting was mainly to the saints on the San Sebastiano, setting an important precedent for his first major solo work, the San Vincenzo Ferrer Altarpiece. By the time of the Fall of the Republic of Venice all four works had been attributed to Bartolomeo Vivarini.[1] During the French occupation they were broken up and re-mounted before being assigned to the Gallerie dell'Accademia, which took over the church of Santa Maria della Carità[2]
