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Transfiguration
Raphael Santi
Transfiguration
c. ***
Oil on canvas
82 cm × 67 cm (32 in × 26 in)

Louvre, Paris

   

The Transfiguration was the artist’s Last major work. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, the future Pope Clement VII, for the cathedral in Narbonne, France, it was not quite finished at the time of his death. The huge altarpiece finally made it to France in 1797, but as Napoleonic loot. It was returned to the Vatican in 1815. A cleaning 450 years after it was painted revealed the brilliant colors and extraordinary lighting Raphael used to dramatize the scene of a boy supposedly possessed by the devil. Theatrical gestures and experimental lighting in the upper and lower halves of the painting emphasized the contrast between man’s earthly troubles and the peacefulness of the spiritual realm.

 
 
 
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