Transfiguration of Christ (Bellini)

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Transfiguration of Christ
Paris 1er - Musee du Louvre - Exposition Naples a Paris - La Transfiguration (Giovanni Bellini).jpg
Artist Giovanni Bellini
Yearc. 1480
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions116 cm× 154 cm(46 in× 61 in)
Location Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Transfiguration of Christ is a c.1480 oil-on-panel painting of the Gospel episode the Transfiguration of Jesus by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, now in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy. [1]

By this time Bellini had abandoned Gothic art and outgrown the influence of Mantegna. The picture shows a more relaxed style than his earlier Transfiguration . The work is signed IOANNES BELLINUS on a small chart hanging from the fence in the foreground. The leaves of the tree on the right, as well as the faces of James and Peter, are from a later restoration.

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