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SNEAK PEEK: Next time,
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Good Morning, Dan! :-)
Thank you as always, Dan!
Thanks for a second batch of visual beauty. It is a difficult subject. I have mostly focused on the composition and how the figures are arranged. Six figures, three up and three down seems to be the standard. There have been clever variations, with James and John on one side and Peter on the other, or with Jesus central and the three apostles as small silhouettes below.
As far as composition goes, I still like Raphael’s complex depiction of the Transfiguration above and the other apostles and the deaf-mute boy below.
There was some discussion about the cloud and whether the figures should be floating. Scripture doesn’t say they were, but how do you depict six figures in a cloud, or even three, and not have them float or be obscured by the cloud? Such were the challenges these artists faced. Dore succeeded, and he was just engraving.