According to the Amsterdam art historian Margriet van Eikema Hommes, the very deep shadows and the extremely dark background in the bottom half of Raphael's last painting, The Transfiguration of ...

Certainly Raphael’s spookiest painting, the Transfiguration also remains one of Raphael’s most controversial works due in no small part to the fact that it was his last before his untimely ...

The artist completed the painting ... is his ‘Transfiguration’ piece, which illustrates Christ’s ascension to heaven, a heavy contrast to the human suffering below. Raphael also painted ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

Most people probably know Raphael (1483–1520) for his Madonnas, his late Transfiguration ... are doing exhibitions pulling from their paintings and drawings collections, but what about the ...

One was commissioned from Raphael, a depiction of the Transfiguration of Christ. The other painting, of the Raising of Lazarus, was assigned to a protégé of Michelangelo, Sebastiano del Piombo.

One room in the Vatican Museums’ Pinacoteca, or painting gallery, displays Raphael’s Crowning of the Virgin, Madonna of Foligno, and The Transfiguration. “In this very unique week ...

or The Transfiguration, is one of Raphael’s final and most powerful masterpieces. Completed in 1520, just before his untimely death, this painting showcases Raphael’s unparalleled skill in ...

Raphael’s last work was a wall-size painting of the transfiguration of Jesus, and, for Vasari’s purposes—in his “The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects ...