Focus on Transfiguration (Raphael) and discuss the abstract.
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 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.From the late 16th century until the early 20th century, various commentators regarded it as the most famous oil painting in the world.
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