For artists like Jacques-Louis David, and his pupils Girodet and Ingres, Raphael represented the embodiment of French artistic ideals. The philosopher Nietzsche interpreted the painting in his book The Birth of Tragedy as an image of the interdependence of Apollonian and Dionysian principles.[36]. Il est conservé dans la Pinacothèque de la cité du Vatican. Ce sont trois jeunes étudiants de la Royal Academy de Londres : William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), John Everett Millais (1829-1896) et Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) qui fondent la Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (« confrérie préraphaélite »), en 1848 en réaction à cet académisme victorien. Il est conservé dans la Pinacothèque de la cité du Vatican. L'œuvre, la dernière des madones de Raphaël terminée de ses propres mains [1], a été peinte vers 1513-1514.La peinture aurait été commandée par les moines bénédictins du monastère Saint-Sixte, à Plaisance, alors qu'ils rendaient visite à Jules II qui célébrait le départ de l'armée française d'Italie [2].Raphaël est commissionné pour peindre le retable du maître-autel de l'église Saint-Sixte [3], [4].. En … Ce moment heureux intervient juste avant la première annonce de la Passion que le Christ devra traverser, comme pour fortifier les apôtres avant la grande épreuve qu’ils vont subir. En 1797, à la suite du Traité de Tolentino, cette œuvre, comme … Près de son lit de mort, on expose le tableau auquel il travaillait depuis trois années, la Tratt sfiguratiott. [5][25], The upper register of the painting includes, from left to right, James, Peter and John,[26] traditionally read as symbols of faith, hope and love; hence the symbolic colours of blue-yellow, green and red for their robes. Durant l'époque de la Renaissance la maladie était tout aussi répandue que de nos jours, même si on ne faisait pas vraiment la différence entre la peste, l'épilepsie et la possession. She is a mirror image of a comparable figure in Raphael's The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple (1512). La Transfiguration A propos du tableau de Raphaël : Nous nous proposons l’analyse d’une huile sur toile de Raphaël placée par René Soulayrol en première page de couverture de son livre, « L’enfant foudroyé, comprendre l’enfant épileptique », dont il propose une analyse en conclusion de son ouvrage. By agreement with the Congress of Vienna, the works were to be exhibited to the public. Giulio ordered Penni a copy of the Transfiguration to take with him to Naples. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours", Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano, Portrait of Doña Isabel de Requesens y Enríquez de Cardona-Anglesola, Portrait of Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transfiguration_(Raphael)&oldid=1013619486, Paintings of the Transfiguration of Jesus, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2021, Wikipedia articles with RKDID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 March 2021, at 16:14. On observe une vive lumière blanche l’entourant, provoquant même un vent improbable, surnaturel, traduit par les drapés d’Élie et de Moïse ainsi que leurs cheveux. The Louvre, which had been opened to the public in 1793, was a clear destination for the art. Transfiguration, Raphaël: Analyse, Interprétation 4 071 Automatique traduire Auteur du texte original - Neil Cоllins 0 Si vous remarquez une erreur grammaticale ou sémantique dans le texte, veuillez la spécifier dans le commentaire. [16] The painting would preserve this authority for more than 300 years. Mais il n'a pas le temps d‘achever le tableau. Plaisir de partager avec vous 3 courtes vidéos YouTube (durée : 3 X 5 minutes) de l’émission PICTURA de la chaîne de télévision Catholique française KTO TV (www.ktotv.com). This tract was well known to Pope Leo X. Guillaume Briçonnet, Cardinal Giulio de' Medici's predecessor as bishop of Narbonne, and his two sons also consulted the tract as spiritual guide. Vintage Books. Raphaël (1483-1520), La transfiguration, (détail), 1518-1520, musée du Vatican. [3] In Raphael's time, epilepsy was often equated with the moon (morbus lunaticus), possession by demons (morbus daemonicus), and also, paradoxically, the sacred (morbus sacer). On the simplest level, the painting can be interpreted as depicting a dichotomy: the redemptive power of Christ, as symbolised by the purity and symmetry of the top half of the painting; contrasted with the flaws of Man, as symbolised by the dark, chaotic scenes in the bottom half of the painting. Cette scène agitée de la partie inférieure du tableau fait référence au passage de l'Évangile de Matthieu, ch. For a couple of days afterward, The Transfiguration lay at the head of his catafalque at his house in the Borgo. Another interpretation is that the epileptic boy has been cured, thus linking the divinity of Christ with his healing power. Cardinal Giulio knew the Apocalypsis Nova and could have influenced the painting's final composition. L'enfant, la bouche ouverte, gesticule, un bras pointé vers le ciel, l'autre vers le sol, les yeux révulsés et exorbités. (2e dimanche du Carême). Les deux tableaux d’autel étaient destinés à sa résidence épiscopale de Narbonne, dont il était l‘archevêque depuis 1515. [15] Among these depictions of details is one set of prints of heads, hands and feet engraved by G. Folo after Vincenzo Camuccini (1806), and another set of heads produced in stipple engraving by J. Godby after drawings by I. Goubaud (1818 and 1830). [18] They criticised that the composition was divided into an upper and a lower half that would not correspond to each other. ), J.M.W. In the first, the Transfiguration of Christ itself, Moses and Elijah appear before the transfigured Christ with Peter, James and John looking on (Matthew 17:1–9; Mark 9:2–13). Partager. [19], During the short period of time the painting spent in Paris, it became a major attraction to visitors, and this continued after its return to Rome, then placed in the Vatican museums. Nietzsche, F. The Birth of Tragedy section 4. In all, Raphael successfully appeased his commissioners, paid homage to his predecessors, and ushered in the subsequent predominance of Baroque painting. In the second, the Apostles fail to cure a boy from demons and await the return of Christ (Matthew 17:14–21; Mark 9:14). Also the lower half would draw too much attention instead of the upper half, while the full attention of the viewer should be paid to the figure of Christ alone. Voilà pourquoi leur séjour sur le mont Thabor fut de courte durée. [12]:1847 The Anglo-American painter Benjamin West "said that the opinion of ages stood confirmed that it still held the first place". La Transfiguration est le dernier tableau peint par Raphaël, commencé en 1518, inachevé de sa main en 1520, date de sa mort. Visiter d’autres sites protestants. The first engraved reproduction of The Transfiguration is also called to be the first reproductive print of a painting ever. La Transfiguration du Christ … She is ostensibly a part of the family group,[24] but on closer examination is set apart from either group. As of 4 July 1801, it became the centrepiece of a large Raphael exhibition in the Grande Galerie. Journal des arts. While the original could only be admired in one place – in Rome, and for a short period of time in Paris after it had been taken away by Napoleon – the large number of reproductions ensured that the composition of the painting was omnipresent in nearly every important art collection in Europe. [11], In November 1798, The Transfiguration was on public display in the Grand Salon at the Louvre. Les deux tableaux d’autel étaient destinés à sa résidence épiscopale de Narbonne, dont il était l‘archevêque depuis 1515. P. anal. With Michelangelo providing drawings for the latter work, Medici was rekindling the rivalry initiated a decade earlier between Michelangelo and Raphael, in the Stanze and Sistine Chapel. [5], Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu noted that the healing of the obsessed boy in the foreground takes precedence over the figure of Christ. Facebook Tweet Email. Les deux petits personnages, à gauche, qui sont en train de prier et qui n’apparaissent pas dans le passage de la Bible sont les saints Just et Pasteur, à qui est dédiée la cathédrale de Narbonne, dont le commanditaire du tableau, le cardinal Jules de Médicis (futur pape Clément VII) était l'archevêque. La Transfiguration est le dernier tableau peint par Raphaël, commencé en 1518, inachevé de sa main en 1520, date de sa mort. Reproduction à l’huile sur toile de l’oeuvre La Transfiguration (Raphaël). La femme du premier plan est-elle le sujet principal de l´oeuvre ? [25] These saints were the patrons of Medici's archbishopric and the cathedral for which the painting was intended. Judas Thaddeus is looking at Simon and pointing towards the boy. Transfiguration of Jesus in Christian art, The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, "Cardiologist Answers a Raphael Question", "The Transfiguration of Our Lord - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado", "Colour Key of Raphael's 'Transfiguration' (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner", "Lecture Diagram 10: Proportion and Design of Part of Raphael's 'Transfiguration' c. 1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner', catalogue entry, June 2004, revised by David Blayney Brown, January 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed. Selon la Bible, cet épisode se situe après la multiplication des pains, au moment où les disciples reconnaissent en lui le Messie. Il est conservé dans la Pinacothèque de la cité du Vatican. La Transfiguration ne fut jamais envoyée en France parce que le cardinal la conserva à la mort de Raphaël (1520) puis il en fit don à l’église Saint-Pierre in Montorio où l’œuvre fut placée sur le maître autel. Raphaël (Raffaelo Santi, 1483-1520): La Transfiguration du Christ.Musée du Vatican, Rome Selon les estimations actuelles, il y a en France entre 300.000 et 600.000 malades épileptiques, dont la moitie est âgée de moins de 20 ans. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in France, Raphael worked on it until his death in 1520. La partie inférieure montre les autres parmi les Douze Apôtres à qui une foule de gens, paniqués, ont amené un jeune garçon victime d'une possession démoniaque et qu'ils ne parviennent pas à guérir. Amadeo's tract describes the episodes of the Transfiguration and the possessed boy consecutively. Raphael also renders her in cooler tones and drapes her in sunlit pink, while he renders the other participants, apart from Matthew, oblivious to her presence. Le Pape Pie VI fut contraint de le céder à la France en 1797 par le traité de Tolentino (le traité, imposé au Saint-Siège par le Directoire français, consistait, entre autres à prélever cent œuvres parmi les collections pontificales et romaines). In the early 20th century, the fame of the painting rapidly diminished and soon The Transfiguration lost its denomination as the most famous painting in the world. As of this meeting the paintings would become emblematic of a paragone between two approaches to painting, and between painting and sculpture in Italian art. Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, another member, had been influenced by Raphael. La Transfiguration est un épisode de la vie du Christ où son apparence physique change pendant sa vie sur terre, révélant ainsi sa nature divine. The commission went to Michelangelo's friend Sebastiano del Piombo. One of the best painted copies ever was made by Gregor Urquhart in 1827. Tout est une question de regard. [21] Thus The Transfiguration is a good example for the changeability of the fame of an artwork, that may last for centuries but may also decline in just a short period. I like there to be someone in the "historia", who tells the spectators what is going on, and either beckons them with his hand to look, or with ferocious expression and forbidding glance challenges them not to come near, as if he wished their business to be secret, or points to some danger or remarkable thing in the picture, or by his gestures invites you to laugh or weep with them. [1] The painting exemplifies Raphael's development as an artist and the culmination of his career. At the conclusion of the version of his first lecture, delivered on 7 January 1811, as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, Turner demonstrated how the upper part of the composition is made up of intersecting triangles, forming a pyramid with Christ at the top.