Pietà with Madonna and St. John the Evangelist

The Pietà or Christ's Body Supported by the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist is a painting in tempera on panel by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini, now in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. Dated to around 1455, it is one of his earliest independent works and the prototype for his series of pietàs. It draws on Byzantine icons of the 'imago pietatis', of which there were many examples throughout Venice, and of 'Ritratti di Passione' or 'portraits of the Passion', in which the dead Christ invites the viewer to contemplate his wounds. The crossed arms are drawn from a famous Roman mosaic-icon from Santa Croce in Gerusalemme basilica which was held to be miraculous and had according to legend been commissioned by pope Gregory the Great based on a vision during a mass.

The three figures appear behind a balustrade which bears a (possibly fake) signature by the artist. Abo…

摘自英文维基百科「Pietà (Bellini, Bergamo)」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。