The Blood of the Redeemer
Painting by Giovanni Bellini
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Artist | Giovanni Bellini |
Year | 1460–65 (?) |
Medium | tempera on panel |
Dimensions | 47 cm × 34.3 cm (19 in × 13.5 in) |
Location | National Gallery, London |
Website | Catalogue entry |
The Blood of the Redeemer is a tempera-on-panel painting executed ca. 1460–1465 by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini. It is now in the National Gallery, London.
It shows a young Christ holding his cross and an angel collecting the blood from the wound in his side in a chalice similar to that used at mass. This indicates that the work was perhaps originally used as the door to a church tabernacle. There were other angels behind Christ, but these were later painted out with clouds for unknown reasons. In the background are two bas reliefs in ancient Roman style, whose imagery may relate to the painting's themes and meanings.
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- Madonna and Child (Pavia)
- Transfiguration (Venice)
- Pietà (Bergamo)
- Crucifixion
- Pietà (Milan)
- Agony in the Garden
- Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels
- Presentation at the Temple
- Christ Blessing (Paris)
- Frizzoni Madonna
- Madonna and Child Blessing
- The Blood of the Redeemer
- Madonna and Child (Milan, 1460–1465)
- Greek Madonna
- Nativity Triptych
- Saint Vincent Ferrer Altarpiece
- San Lorenzo Triptych
- San Sebastiano Triptych
- Triptych of the Madonna
- The Head of St John the Baptist
- Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Berlin)
- Dead Christ Supported by Angels (Rimini)
- The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist
- Lehman Madonna
- Pesaro Altarpiece
- Portrait of Georg Fugger
- Lochis Madonna
- Madonna and Child (Verona)
- Enthroned Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
- Madonna and Child (Venice, 1475)
- Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
- St. Francis in Ecstasy
- Contarini Madonna
- Resurrection of Christ
- Portrait of a Humanist
- Transfiguration of Christ (Naples)
- Willys Madonna
- St. Jerome in the Desert (Florence)
- Saint Jerome Reading in a Landscape
- Alzano Madonna
- Madonna of the Red Cherubim
- Madonna and Child (New York, late 1480s)
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- Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist
- Portrait of a Young Man (Paris)
- Holy Allegory
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- Allegories
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- Annunciation
- Christ Blessing (Fort Worth)
- Circumcision of Christ*
- Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Florence)
- Portrait of a Young Man (Washington)
- Self-Portrait
- Portrait of a Young Man (Liverpool)
- Baptism of Christ
- Head of the Redeemer
- Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
- Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Female Saint
- Martinengo Pietà
- Portrait of a Young Man (Royal Collection)
- St. Jerome in the Desert (Washington)
- San Zaccaria Altarpiece
- Madonna del Prato
- Portrait of the Loredan Family
- The Infant Bacchus
- Sacred Conversation (Madrid)
- St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria
- The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr
- Madonna and Child with Four Saints and Donor
- The Continence of Scipio
- Madonna and Child (Detroit)
- Madonna and Child (Rome)
- Madonna and Child (Milan, 1510)
- Virgin in Glory with Saints
- Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse
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- Gentile Bellini (brother)
- Andrea Mantegna (brother-in-law)
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