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Plate XLV · Transfiguration (Gr. Metamórphōsis)

Vol. XII (1954) · full-page plate
Above: THE TRANSFIGURATION. Left: The Annunciation; right: an angel with the Madonna and Child. Mosaic from the time of Leo III (795-816) on the triumphal arch of the church of SS. Nereo e Achilleo - Rome. Below left: TRANSFIGURATION. A grey-yellowish halo surrounds Christ, Moses beardless and Elijah bearded. Miniature of the 9th cent. - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. grec 510, f. 75, containing the Sermons of St. Gregory of Nazianzus. Below right: THE TRANSFIGURATION. Bronze bas-relief. Detail of the north Door of the Florence Baptistery. Work by L. Ghiberti (1403-24).
(per cortesia della dott. Agnese Guerrieri)
Plate XLV
(da H. Omont, Miniatures des plus anciens mss. grecs de la Bibl. nat. du VIe au XIVe siècle, Parigi 1929, tav. 28)
Plate XLV
(fot. Alinari)
Above: THE TRANSFIGURATION. Left: The Annunciation; right: an angel with the Madonna and Child. Mosaic from the time of Leo III (795-816) on the triumphal arch of the church of SS. Nereo e Achilleo - Rome. Below left: TRANSFIGURATION. A grey-yellowish halo surrounds Christ, Moses beardless and Elijah bearded. Miniature of the 9th cent. - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. grec 510, f. 75, containing the Sermons of St. Gregory of Nazianzus. Below right: THE TRANSFIGURATION. Bronze bas-relief. Detail of the north Door of the Florence Baptistery. Work by L. Ghiberti (1403-24).

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