The Head of Christ is a 1648 oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. [1] There are multiple versions of Rembrandt's Head of Christ which are in the possession internationally of cultural institutions and individuals.

The heads of Christ The answer to the enigma of whether Rembrandt painted his Christ “from life” lies in these pictures. It was to works like these that contemporaries referred when they evoked his portrayals of Jesus “after life.”

Head of Christ is a 17th-century painting by Rembrandt's workshop. It shows Christ with a beard and long dark hair. It is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1]

Artist: Style of Rembrandt (Dutch, 1650s) Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 16 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (42.5 x 34.3 cm); with added strips 18 5/8 x 14 5/8 in. (47.3 x 37.1 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917. Object Number: 17.120.222. Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum.

Head of Christ is a 1650s painting by Rembrandt 's workshop. It shows Christ with a beard and long dark hair. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] Rembrandt created several similar heads in varying poses, possibly as devotional objects. Today about a …

The Head of Christ is a 1648 painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, based on a Jewish model and thus marking a turning-point in the artist's work. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.

A 1656 inventory lists a picture hanging in Rembrandt's studio as "a head of Christ, done from life," perhaps evidence that Rembrandt used his neighbors in the Jewish Quarter of …

Head of Christ This sketch, one of Rembrandt’s most subtle in the rendering of light on flesh, is characteristic of his approach, in that it is the expression of emotion that is paramount. Christ, torn between meditation and infinite weariness, emerges in all his truth.

Head of Christ The figure of Christ here was intended to express suffering and abandonment. The anxiety of Jesus on the Mount of Olives before his arrest seems to have been in gestation.

Many versions of the Head of Christ exist, the one chosen here is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. There is a certain element of sentimentality in this series of heads-the sad eyes and the handsome bearded face.