''Transfiguration of Christ'' is a c.1480 oil-on-panel painting of the Gospel episode the

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by the Italian Renaissance master

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 29 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father, ...

, now in the

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. By this time Bellini had abandoned

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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.

References

* 1480 paintings Paintings by Giovanni Bellini Paintings in the Museo di Capodimonte Bellini {{15C-painting-stub