Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World)

ARTIST: Museum Religious Art Classics

ARTWORK NARRATIVE:

Artist: Domenico Fetti – c. 1622 – 1623

Christ is seated in clouds above a landscape, his left hand on an orb, his right raised in blessing, as he directs his gaze towards the viewer. The playful cherubs—especially the one peeking out beneath his blue cloak—and the illusionistic character of the composition are a sort of homage to the work of the great sixteenth-century painter Correggio. The picture was painted in Venice for Count Francesco Gambara of Brescia. Fetti had moved to Venice from Mantua following a fight with a fellow painter.

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