Transfiguration (Raphael)

The Transfiguration
Artist	Raphael
Year	1516–20[1]
Medium	Oil tempera on wood[2]
Dimensions	410 cm × 279 cm (160 in × 110 in)
Location	Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City
Accession	40333[1]
Website	www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/la-pinacoteca/sala-viii---secolo-xvi/raffaello-sanzio--trasfigurazione.html

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.^[1] 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 (the healing of a possessed boy) in the lower part of the painting. The work is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in the Vatican City.^[1]

From the late 16th century until the early 20th century, various commentators regarded it as the most famous oil painting in the world.