The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, who later became Pope Clement VII, as an altarpiece intended for Narbonne Cathedral in France, and worked on by Raphael in the years preceding his death in 1520. It exemplifies Raphael's development as an artist and the culmination of his career, and 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 held in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Vatican City.
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Year Created LocationPinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City 1 Commissioned ByCardinal Giulio de Medici, later Pope Clement VII, as an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral in France 1 Connections
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The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Cardinal Giulio de Medici, who later became Pope Clement VII (in office: 1523-1534), 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 work is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in the Vatican City.
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The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, who later became Pope Clement VII, as an altarpiece intended for Narbonne Cathedral in France, and worked on by Raphael in the years preceding his death in 1520.
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