Head of the Redeemer explained

Head of the Redeemer
Artist:Giovanni Bellini
Year:1500–1502
Height Metric:33
Width Metric:22
Museum:Gallerie dell'Accademia
City:Venice
Medium:oil on panel

Head of the Redeemer is a 33×22 cm oil-on-panel painting of the head of Christ by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, dating to 1500–1502 and now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.[1] It is a fragment of a larger scene of the Transfiguration; another fragment from the same work bears a scroll with the signature IOANNES BELLINUS ME PINXIT ("Giovanni Bellini painted me").

References

  1. https://www.wga.hu/html_m/b/bellini/giovanni/1500-09/168frag1.html WGA entry