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Jesus Christ blessing the Host

Carlo Dolci (painting); Anth. Cardon (engraving) · 4 June 1811

An 1811 engraving after a painting by Carlo Dolci, showing Jesus blessing bread and wine, a devotional image made centuries after his life.

A devotional image of Jesus blessing bread and wine, made centuries after his lifetime to spread religious imagery of him.

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Black-and-white stipple engraving of a bearded man with long curly hair and a halo, gazing upward, one hand raised, the other holding a loaf of bread over a table with a chalice and plate. Titled Salvator Mundi; inscribed painted by Carlo Dolci, engraved by Anth. Cardon, published at Windsor by W. Hopkins, June 4th 1811.
A. Cardon, Jesus Christ blessing the Host, stipple engraving, 1811, after Carlo Dolci. Wellcome Collection, London.

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What it is

This is a stipple engraving made in 1811 by Anth. Cardon, based on a painting by the Italian artist Carlo Dolci. It shows a bearded figure with a halo blessing a loaf of bread over a table with a chalice and plate. It is held by the Wellcome Collection in London.

Why it matters

The image reflects a long European tradition of painting Jesus performing the blessing of bread and wine, a scene tied to Christian ritual. It shows how artists like Dolci, and later engravers like Cardon, kept reproducing and spreading religious imagery of Jesus centuries after he lived.

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  • What objects on the table help you identify this as a religious scene about blessing food and drink?
  • Why might this image have been copied as a print and sold, rather than kept as a single painting?
  • What does the halo and upward gaze suggest about how the artist wanted viewers to see Jesus?

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