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The Transfiguration of Jesus has been an important subject in Christian art, above all in the Eastern church, some of whose most striking icons show the scene. The Feast of the Transfiguration has been celebrated in the Eastern church since at least the 6th century and it is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Eastern Orthodoxy , and so is widely ...
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]
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The painting depicts the event of the Transfiguration of Jesus, wherein Jesus after walking up to a mountaintop with the three apostles Peter; James; and John, gains a divine radiance and white robes, and begins conversing with Moses (with the horns of light) and Elijah. It is a moment when his divine nature is directly revealed to the apostles.
Paintings of the Transfiguration of Jesus (12 P) W. Paintings of Christ and the woman taken in adultery (11 P) Pages in category "Paintings of Jesus"
Caravaggio's painting is a visual counterpart to the Mass, with the priest raising the newly consecrated host with the Entombment as a backdrop. The privileged placement of the altar would have meant that this was a daily occurrence; the act perfectly juxtaposing the body in the picture with the host as the priest intones "This is my very body."
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