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The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. 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. The painting exemplifies Raphael’s development as an artist and the culmination of his career.