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Updated: May 6, 2025
We were none of us critics: none of us had got beyond the stage when the sentiment of a work of art is what most affects our enjoyment of it; and we all confessed how much more impressive to us was this Transfiguration, with its three quiet spectators, than the world-famous one at the Vatican.
At the end of that time he had accomplished a chef-d'oeuvre. It was not a simple writing, but a real picture representing the creation of the world, and divided almost like the Transfiguration of Raphael.
At Basle there is a round window in the minster with figures climbing and falling on the spokes, and Fortune sits in the midst. It is a wheel of Fortune. It is the same at Beauvais, at Amiens, and elsewhere. At Chartres is a representation in stained glass of the Transfiguration; and Christ is exhibited in glory in the midst of an eight-spoked wheel.
And now I think of it, it is our home and solace that we want in a bed-book. V. Transfiguration
Our Lord rose in the same body He had before His death; but when He rose it had new qualities it was glorified. The qualities of a glorified body are four, viz.: brilliancy, agility, subtility, and impassability. It has brilliancy; that is, it shines like a light; it gives forth light; the soul shines through the body. You have heard of the Transfiguration of Our Lord.
That manhood could not end its relationship to us with the Cross, nor yet with the slow, solemn, upward progress which bore Him, pouring down blessings, up into the same bright cloud that had dwelt between the cherubim and had received Him into its mysterious recesses at the Transfiguration. That He should come again is the only possible completion of His work. That Judge is our Brother.
This is not always the case with the Cartoons, and the reverse process, everywhere adhered to in the Transfiguration, is what gives to that overrated last work of Sanzio its painfully artificial character. Titian himself in the St. Sebastian of Brescia, and above all in the much-vaunted masterpiece, The Martyrdom of St.
It was something more than a grandiose transfiguration of the parental love that toils, renounces, endures, resists the suicidal promptings of despair all because of the little ones, whose future becomes present to the yearning gaze of anxiety.
The future of the kingdom hung upon three undisciplined country fishermen. The transfiguration spells out God's dire extremity in getting a footing in human hearts and brains for His plans. Something must be done. Mark what that something was to be: so simple in itself, so tremendous in its results. They were to be allowed to see Jesus. That would be enough.
It is now in the possession of Francesco Benintendi, in Florence. For Giulio de' Medici, Cardinal and Vice-Chancellor, he painted a panel-picture, to be sent into France, of the Transfiguration of Christ, at which he laboured without ceasing, and brought it to the highest perfection with his own hand.
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