Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Transfiguration
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Transfiguration
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Image View:
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Detail, lower scene, the Apostles fail to heal a boy possessed by demons
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Creator:
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Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 40333
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Location Note:
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Pinacoteca, Room VIII
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GPS:
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+41.906389+12.454444
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Date:
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1517-1520 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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altarpiece
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Work Type 2:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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tempera grassa (egg-oil tempera paint) on wood panel
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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410 cm (height) x 279 cm (width)
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Description:
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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.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-RS-VM-TT-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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