TRANSFIGURATION

Original 1826 12 1/4 inch x 8 3/8 inch steel engraving of THE TRANSFIGURATION

The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in France, Raphael worked on it until 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 an additional episode from the Gospels in the lower part of the painting.

Engraved by I. Bromley

From the painting by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) (1483 – 1520). 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 Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Published by Robert Bowyer & Mary Parkes, 46 Pall Mall, London, 1826.

Image size 8 1/4 inch x 5 5 5/8 inch

The engraving is in good condition with a water stain upper right and outside of the image. Reverse side blank.