The transfiguration

Origin: Russia
Age: 2nd half of the XIXth Century
Composition: Tempera on wood
Measures Cms: 38,5 X 51,2 X 2,8

In the highest place on the Mount of Olives, above the cave of Eleona (olive grove), in the place called Imbobon (height) Christ separated from the earth and ascended to heaven before the astonished gaze of the apostles, forty days after the resurrection.