Raffaello, trasfigurazione, 1516-20, 03

A crowd of agitated figures surrounds a young boy in the throes of a seizure, representing the biblical miracle of the healing of the possessed. On the left, the apostles gesture with confusion and point upwards toward the (unseen) divine light, while on the right, the boy's family presents him in a state of physical distress. The composition uses dramatic lighting and complex poses to emphasize the chaos of the material world.

This work embodies the High Renaissance Neoplatonic synthesis of physical reality and spiritual aspiration. The lower scene represents the human condition and the limitations of earthly knowledge, which in the context of the full painting, is contrasted with the divine light of the Transfiguration above.