Vintage 1958 Raphael “The Transfiguration” Christian Iconography Renaissance Art Print

Print from a 1958 Metropolitan Seminars in Art volume.

9.5" x 12.5" unframed

The Transfiguration (1516–1520) 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.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520),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.