# Blessing Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLINI, Giovanni]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 58 x 44 cm ## Commentary This painting is usually identified with the "Portrait of the Saviour" mentioned in 1648 by Ridolfi in the Agostinian convent of Santo Stefano in Venice. On the one hand this Christ is still associated with the master's first works, marked by a pathetic resentment that would soon disappear to leave space for the elevated "classical" melancholy; on the other, Bellini demonstrates his capacity to juxtapose the suggestions of Mantegna's style and those generically Paduan post-Donatello influences with a concept of light that is not only extraordinary but emphatically personal. ## Related artworks - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Angel Announcing \(detail\)]() - [Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate]() - [Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece]() - [Bust of a Man]() - [Continence of Scipio \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()