Altarpiece:
The Transfiguration
tempera on panDuccio di Buoninsegna ca. 1255 – 1319
tempera on panel (44 × 46 cm) — 1308-11
Matthew 17:2 - And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Transfiguration
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Jesus takes his closest followers Peter, James, and John with him to the top of a mountain. There he transfigures into his divine state. Next to him appear Moses (left) and the prophet Elijah (right).
This panel was part of the predella of Duccio's famous Maestà.>>> Maesta (Duccio)
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