Christ Blessing (Bellini, 1460)

For the 1500 painting of the same name, see Christ Blessing (Bellini, 1500).

Christ Blessing is a tempera-on-panel painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Bellini.^[1] It is usually dated to the early 1460s, that is, in the middle of Bellini's Mantegnese phase. It is now in the Louvre in Paris.

Christ Blessing
Artist	Giovanni Bellini
Year	1460
Medium	tempera on panel
Dimensions	58 cm × 44 cm (23 in × 17 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris
Website	Catalogue entry

It is probably the painting mentioned by the historian Carlo Ridolfi as an "Effigy of the Saviour" in the Augustinian monastery of Santo Stefano Church in Venice. Morassi is the only art historian to demur from this consensus, instead identifying the painting seen by Ridolfi with a painting in a Swiss private collection dating to 1500.