Transfiguration
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| Artists | Raphael |
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| Sebastiano del Piombo | |
| Locations | Vatican Museums |
| Created | 1516–1520 |
| Periods | High Renaissance |
| Medium | Tempera |
| Subject | Transfiguration of Jesus |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2316947 |
About Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in France, Raphael worked on it until his death in 1520.
Terence Davies: Screenwriter and film director dies aged 77
Screenwriter and director Terence Davies , known for Films including Distant Voices, Still Lives , has died at the Age Of 77.
He established himself with a trilogy of Films - Children , Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration - in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Born and raised in Liverpool, his work often has an autobiographical element.
He died peacefully At Home after short illness, his manager confirmed in a statement.
His most recent work, Netflix drama Benediction, starring Slow Horses actor Jack Lowden and Doctor Who 's Peter Capaldi , explored The Life of war poet Siegfried Sassoon .
Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a book-keeper in an accountancy firm for 10 Years before enrolling at drama school in Coventry in 1973.
He won the Cannes International Critics Prize for Distant Voices, Still Lives - a film based on his memories of life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool.
His other Films include a 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton 's The House of Mirth, in which Sex Education star Gillian Anderson played socialite Lily Bart , and a 2011 adaption of Terence Rattigan 's play The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz .
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