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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 ...
As well as following the Transfiguration in traditional sequences of the Life of Christ in art, [7] the subject was especially appropriate for the cathedral at Narbonne, which had relics of Lazarus. The Medici family, whose name means "doctors" in Italian, were often attracted to subjects showing Christ as a healer (or medicus ).
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 of Jesus in Christian art; B. Transfiguration (Bellini, Venice) Transfiguration of Christ (Bellini) G. Gotha Altarpiece; L. Transfiguration (Lotto) P.
In icons of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the mandorla is used to depict sacred moments that "transcend time and space", such as the Resurrection and the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ and the Dormition of the Theotokos. These mandorlas are often painted in several concentric bands of different color, which become darker in progression to the ...
Transfiguration of Christ is a c.1480 oil-on-panel painting of the Gospel episode the Transfiguration of Jesus by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, now in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy. [1] By this time Bellini had abandoned Gothic art and outgrown the influence of Mantegna.
Transfiguration is an oil-on-canvas painting of the Gospel episode the Transfiguration of Jesus, painted in 1604–1605 by Peter Paul Rubens and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy. [ 1 ] References
The Transfiguration is a tempera-on-panel painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bellini, created c. 1454–1460. It depicts the Gospel episode the Transfiguration of Jesus . It is held in the Museo Correr in Venice .