Transfiguration (Raphael)

The Transfiguration
ArtistRaphael
Year1516–20[1]
MediumOil tempera on wood[2]
Dimensions410 cm × 279 cm (160 in × 110 in)
LocationPinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City
Accession40333[1]
Websitewww.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/la-pinacoteca/sala-viii---secolo-xvi/raffaello-sanzio--trasfigurazione.html

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] The painting exemplifies Raphael's development as an artist and the culmination of his career. Unusually for a depiction of the Transfiguration of Jesus in Christian art, the subject is combined with the next episode from the Gospels (the healing of a possessed boy) in the lower part of the painting. The work is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in the Vatican City.[1]

From the late 16th century until the early 20th century, various commentators regarded it as the most famous oil painting in the world.

  1. ^ a b c d "Raffaello Sanzio, The Transfiguration". Vatican Museums. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  2. ^ Charles, Victoria (12 June 2014). Art in Europe: Museums and Masterworks (reprint ed.). New York: Parkstone International (published 2014). p. 116. ISBN 9781783104666. Retrieved 30 April 2022. Raphael, Transfiguration, 1516-1520. Oil tempera on wood