Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Transfiguration
Image View:
Detail, upper scene with Christ in glory between the prophets Moses and Elijah
Creator:
Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
Location:
repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 40333
Location Note:
Pinacoteca, Room VIII
GPS:
41.906389 12.454444
Date:
1517-1520 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
altarpiece
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera grassa (egg-oil tempera paint) on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
410 cm (height) x 279 cm (width)
Description:
The most ambitious and largest of all his paintings in oil (tempera grassa), his last altarpiece, the Transfiguration (Rome, Pin. Vaticana), was commissioned by the Pope’s cousin, Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, by January 1517 and exhibited as a finished work just after Raphael’s death. This was intended for export, to Narbonne Cathedral of which Giulio was archbishop; after Raphael's death it remained in Italy. The subject of Raphael’s painting is not simply the Transfiguration, the manifestation of Christ’s divinity to his disciples, but a subsequent event, the failure of the disciples to heal a boy possessed by demons (related in the Gospel of Matthew). (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-RS-VM-TT-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Transfiguration