1/internal/media/dispatcher/164306/fullHead of Christc. 1480[Oberösterreichischer Bildhauer]Oberösterreichischer BildhauerChalky sandstone, traces of polychromy In 1467, Emperor Frederick III invited Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden, the most prominent Netherlandish sculptor of his time, to Austria. The artist’s uncompromising realism and innovative three-dimensionality had a strong influence on Austrian sculpture in the final third of the fifteenth century. This head of Christ, the work of an unknown Austrian sculptor, is a case in point. The face of Christ, marked by suffering and death, likely once formed part of a Pietà—a representation of the Crucified mourned by his mother, Mary.Sculpturehttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3681/rdf