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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 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.
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 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.
Pages in category "Paintings of the Transfiguration of Jesus" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Transfiguration (1604–1605) by Rubens. 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]
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.
Mount Hermon (2,814 metres or 9,232 feet high) was suggested by J. Lightfoot (1602–1675) and R. H. Fuller (1915–2007) [2] for two reasons: It is the highest site in the area [given that the Transfiguration took place on "a high mountain" (Matthew 17:1)], and it is located near Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16:13), where the previous events reportedly took place.