Dead Christ Supported by Angels

Pietà

Artist	Giovanni Bellini
Year	ca. 1470
Medium	tempera on panel
Dimensions	80.5 cm × 120 cm (31.7 in × 47 in)
Location	Museo della città, Rimini

Pietà or Dead Christ Supported by Angels or Dead Christ Supported by Four Angels^[1] is a tempera-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini, now in the city museum of Rimini. It is dated to around 1470, making it one of his early mature works, around the same time as another of his Pietà (Brera).

After having undergone a comprehensive conservation treatment by the Venetian Heritage, the painting was on view in Venice at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro from November 21, 2025 to January 6, 2026, and in the United States (for the first time) at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan from January 15 through April 19, 2026.^[2]

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(in Italian) Mariolina Olivari, Giovanni Bellini, in AA.VV., Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Firenze 2007. ISBN 888117099X
Giovanni Bellini's Pietà Restored by Venetian Heritage (2025) Marsilio Arte. ISBN 9791254633441. Accompanies the Morgan Library & Museum exhibit

Giovanni Bellini
List of works
Paintings	Saint Jerome in the Desert (Birmingham) Madonna and Child (Pavia) Transfiguration (Venice) Pietà (Bergamo) Crucifixion Pietà (Milan) Agony in the Garden Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels Presentation at the Temple Christ Blessing (Paris) Frizzoni Madonna Madonna and Child Blessing The Blood of the Redeemer Madonna and Child (Milan, 1460–1465) Greek Madonna Nativity Triptych Saint Vincent Ferrer Altarpiece San Lorenzo Triptych San Sebastiano Triptych Triptych of the Madonna Head of Saint John the Baptist Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Berlin) Dead Christ Supported by Angels (Rimini) The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin and Saint John Lehman Madonna Pesaro Altarpiece Portrait of Georg Fugger Lochis Madonna Madonna and Child (Verona) Enthroned Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child Madonna and Child (Venice, 1475) Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child Saint Francis in Ecstasy Contarini Madonna Resurrection of Christ Portrait of a Humanist Transfiguration of Christ (Naples) Willys Madonna Saint Jerome in the Desert (Florence) Saint Jerome Reading in a Landscape (London) Alzano Madonna Madonna of the Red Cherubim Madonna and Child (New York, late 1480s) San Giobbe Altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Sebastian Madonna of the Small Trees Barbarigo Altarpiece Frari Triptych Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula Portrait of a Young Man in Red Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist Portrait of a Young Man (Paris) Holy Allegory Portrait of a Young Senator Allegories Portrait of a Condottiero Annunciation Christ Blessing (Fort Worth) Circumcision of Christ* Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Florence) Portrait of a Young Man (Washington) Self-Portrait Portrait of a Young Man (Liverpool) Baptism of Christ Head of the Redeemer Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and a Female Saint Martinengo Pietà Portrait of a Young Man (Royal Collection) Saint Jerome in the Desert (Washington) San Zaccaria Altarpiece Madonna del Prato Portrait of the Loredan Family The Infant Bacchus Sacred Conversation (Madrid) Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr Madonna and Child with Four Saints and Donor The Continence of Scipio Madonna and Child (Detroit) Madonna and Child (Rome) Madonna and Child (Milan, 1510) Virgin in Glory with Saints Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse The Feast of the Gods Drunkenness of Noah Naked Young Woman in Front of a Mirror Portrait of Fra Teodoro of Urbino as Saint Dominic Deposition
Other	Martyrdom of Saint Maurice and his Comrades (illuminated manuscript; attributed)
Related	San Zaccaria, Venice (1995 photograph) Venetian Renaissance
Family	Jacopo Bellini (father) Gentile Bellini (brother) Andrea Mantegna (brother-in-law)
* Workshop

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