The Transfiguration
About this artwork
This painting illustrates the mystical episode described in three of the gospels when Christ demonstrated his divine nature to his disciples Peter, James and John. On a remote mountain he was transformed, appearing in a vision conversing with the Old Testament prophets Moses and Elijah, his face radiating light and his clothes dazzling white. The stunned apostles lie prostrate on the ground in complicated poses. Painted around 1588, this is a typically spiritual work from the early maturity of Lodovico Carracci, who with his younger cousins Agostino and Annibale had founded a highly influential artists’ academy in their native Bologna earlier that decade.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Ludovico Carracci (1555 - 1619) Italian
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title:The Transfiguration
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date created:About 1588 - 1590
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:102.50 x 83.40 cm; Framed: 132.50 x 113.50 x 7.50 cm / 16.00 kg
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credit line:Purchased by Private Treaty with the assistance of Art Fund, 2007
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accession number:NG 2823
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico Carracci, together with his younger cousins Agostino and Annibale, founded the celebrated Carracci Academy in Bologna in the early 1580s, where they fostered a new, naturalistic approach to painting, with a strong emphasis on life drawing. They are considered to have reformed Italian art...