Transfiguration (Raphael)
The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Cardinal Giulio de Medici – who later became Pope Clement VII – commissioned the work, conceived as an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral in France; Raphael worked on it in the years preceding his death in 1520. 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 in the lower part of the painting.
The work is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in the Vatican City.
Transfiguration (Raphael)
Modello for the Transfiguration of Christ, pen and brown ink with white highlights on paper primed with dark brown wash, 40 x 27 cm, c. 1516, Albertina
Wedding procession of Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria in 1810 (detail)
St. Matthew and another apostle, red chalk over stylus, 328 x 232 mm
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Presumed portrait of Raphael
Raphael, The School of Athens
Raphael, Cardinal and Theological Virtues, 1511
Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father; Christ supported by two angels, c. 1490