Santa Giustina, martyred in Padua in 304, belonged to the ancient Vitaliani family, then merged into the Borromeo family at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Painted around 1470, the panel is therefore documented in Milan, in Palazzo Borromeo, in 1513. Then, for more than three centuries, its traces are lost until, at the end of the nineteenth century, it reappears in the Bagatti Valsecchi collection. In the meantime, even its author had been lost; in 1913 it will be the great art historian Bernard Berenson, who at first attributed the table to Alvise Vivarini, to name Giovanni Bellini, emphasizing the absorbed and statuary solemnity of the Saint, which is found in other contemporary works of the Master.