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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Camillo Procaccini
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Title
- The Transfiguration
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1585–1595
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Medium
- Etching in black on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- 56.5 × 35.5 cm (22 1/4 × 14 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Herbert Mitchell and Marion Livingston Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1994.250
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/131392/manifest.json
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