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The Transfiguration

A work made of etching in black on cream laid paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of etching in black on cream laid paper.

Date:

c. 1590

Artist:

Camillo Procaccini
Italian, 1555-1629

About this artwork

Camillo Procaccini was the older brother of Giulio Cesare Procaccini, who worked in a sinuously Mannerist style, as seen in the Virgin and Child with Angels (1969.626). Yet Camillo used a sparer formal vocabulary in this depiction of a pivotal moment from Christ’s adulthood. Created at a similar scale as his brother’s painting, Camillo’s print was the largest etching produced in Italy to that date. The artist’s use of dotted lines allows Christ’s face to appear to dissolve as he unites with God the Father, casting a visionary blaze that temporarily blinds his apostles below.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Camillo Procaccini

Title

The Transfiguration

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1585–1595

Medium

Etching in black on cream laid paper

Dimensions

56.5 × 35.5 cm (22 1/4 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Herbert Mitchell and Marion Livingston Endowment

Reference Number

1994.250

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