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The Transfiguration

On the high mountain Jesus is transfigured before Peter, James, and John, his face shining like the sun as Moses and Elijah appear and the Father's voice sounds from the cloud (Matthew 17). A tempera icon by the Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev (c. 1405).

The Transfiguration by Andrei Rublev depicting Matthew 17:1
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Depicted passages

Matthew 17:1-9Primary
Portrait of Andrei Rublev

About Andrei Rublev

1360-1430 · Russian

Andrei Rublev was a medieval Russian iconographer canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Surviving works attributed to him include the Hospitality of Abraham (the icon often called the "Old Testament Trinity") and the festal tier of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin (c. 1405).

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