Carpaccio 's The Healing of The Possessed Man is his contribution to the cycle of the Miracles of the Relic of the True Cross, painted for the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, and now in the gallery of the Academy of Venice with the seven other surviving paintings of the cycle, including those by Gentile Bellini. The miracle takes place in a loggia overlooking a crowded scene of the Grand Canal looking down from San Silvestro towards the old wooden Rialto bridge, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi and the Ca' da Mosto.
The buildings which provide the background of the Arrival of the English Ambassadors at Court of the King of Brittany in the cycle of the Life of St. Ursula are equally Venetian, in character if not topography.