BELLINI, Giovanni
(b. ca. 1426, Venezia, d. 1516, Venezia)

Head of the Baptist

1464-68
Tempera on wood, diameter 28 cm
Musei Civici, Pesaro

The same refulgent brightness and profiles strained into vigorous, dramatic gestures returns in the Head of the Baptist as observed in the Polyptych of S. Vincenzo Ferreri.