The_Head_of_St_John_the_Baptist_(Bellini)

<i>The Head of St John the Baptist</i> (Bellini)

The Head of St John the Baptist (Bellini)

Painting by Giovanni Bellini

The head of St. John the Baptist is a tondo painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini.[1] It is now housed in the Civic Museum of Pesaro.

Quick Facts Head of St. John the Baptist, Artist ...

The painting depicts the head of the St. John the Baptist just after his decapitation, with blood still dripping from the neck. The perspective from below show the influence of the treatises about perspective representation of the human figure which were being published at the time, such as Piero della Francesca's De prospectiva pingendi.

Stylistically, the brilliant colors and the dramatic painting are similar to those of St. Vincent Ferrer Polyptych, the first mature work by Bellini, dated to after 1464.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    L'opera era già stata oggetto di dibattito con l'assegnazione ai due pittori dopo la prima attribuzione allo Zoppo da parte di Adolfo Venturi (
    Pignatti 1969
    — p. 91.
    ); dopo una prevalente attribuzione a Bellini la critica più recente pare più propensa verso lo Zoppo (
    Regione Marche
    ). Non viene consideratanel Catalogo ragionato dove incidentalmente viene considerata come assodata l'ipotesi dello Zoppo (
    Lucco 2019
    — p. 327.
    )
  2. [2]
    Tempestini 2000
    — pp. 47,
    187.

Sources

  • De Vecchi, Pierluigi; Elda Cerchiari (1999). I tempi dell'arte. Vol. 2. Milan: Bompiani. ISBN 88-451-7212-0.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article The_Head_of_St_John_the_Baptist_(Bellini), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.