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The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael.Cardinal Giulio de Medici – who later became Pope Clement VII (in office: 1523–1534) – commissioned the work, conceived as an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral in France; Raphael worked on it in the years preceding his death in 1520. [1]
Transfiguration by Raphael (1518–1520) ... Raphael's "Transfiguration of Jesus" is a stunning example of the fusion of Renaissance and Byzantine styles.
1518–1520: Holy Family Under an Oak Tree: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain: Oil on panel 144 x 110 1520: La fornarina: Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy: Oil on panel 87 x 63 1516–1520: The Transfiguration: Vatican Museums ., Vatican City: Tempera on panel 410 x 279
The upper part of The Transfiguration (1520) by Raphael, depicting Christ miraculously discoursing with Moses and Elijah. Palamism, Gregory Palamas' theology of divine "operations", was never accepted by the Scholastic theologians of the Latin Catholic Church, who maintained a strong view of the simplicity of God, conceived as Actus purus.
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. [1] [2] The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–13, Luke 9:28–36) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it.
It is probable that the picture was in the painter's studio at his death in 1520, and that it was modified and then sold by his assistant Giulio Romano. [ 1 ] Art-history tradition or legend identifies the woman as the fornarina ("baker" or "baker's daughter") Margherita Luti , Raphael's Roman lover who refused to marry him, though this ...
The Transfiguration, by Raphael, 1520. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici. Cardinal Giulio's other endeavors on behalf of Pope Leo X were similarly successful, such that "he had the credit of being the prime mover of papal policy throughout the whole of Leo's pontificate". [36]
Christof Thoenes observes: "However unabashedly Raphael adopts the pose, compositional framework and spatial organization of the Leonardo portrait...the cool watchfulness in the young woman's gaze is very different" from the "enigmatic ambiguity" of Mona Lisa. [2] The work was of uncertain attribution until recent times.