02 Works, Interpretation of the bible, The Dead Christ supported by an Angel, with Footnotes #190

Circle of Titian 

The Dead Christ supported by an Angel

Oil on canvas

77.7 x 64.5 cm.; 30½ x 25⅜ in.

Private collection

Sold for 302,400 GBP in July 2022

An interpretation of a subject often described as the Cristo passo – a theme explored in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Venetian representations by Bellini, Antonello da Messina, Cima da Conegliano and others. More on this painting

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, or Titian (1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.

Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars", Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.

During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of tone are without precedent in the history of Western painting. More on Titian

Messina, Antonello da

The Dead Christ supported by an Angel, c. 1475 - 1476

Oil on Poplar

Height: 74 cm; Width: 51 cm.

Museo Nacional del Prado

Bellini painted versions of the Pietà that gave Antonello a compositional reference (the placement of Christ in the foreground), as well as an iconographical one (the inclusion of angels). Antonello´s painting is technically virtuoso, combining a meticulous calligraphy of northern origin —visible in the landscape and in Christ´s hair— with a monumental treatment of the anatomy and a concern for volume and perspective that are clearly southern. More on this painting

Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina (c. 1430 – February 1479), was a Sicilian painter from Messina, active during the Early Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting, although there is no documentary evidence that he ever travelled beyond Italy. Giorgio Vasari credited him with the introduction of oil painting into Italy, although this is now disputed. Unusually for a south Italian artist of the Renaissance, his work proved influential on painters in northern Italy, especially in Venice. More on Antonello da Messina

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