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").