Color Plates

The Transfiguration

St. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy. Apse, mosaic. Sixth century.

See Saving Paradise, 152-55, 243-45.

“Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them, and his garments became glistening… And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses… And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, 'This is my Son, my Beloved; listen to him.'”

Mark 9:2-8. (See also Matthew 17:1-8; Luke 9:23-27)