Christopher Buckley

My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.

American Novelist

Edward McKendree Bounds

The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the typical facts of the resurrection of the body; not only of the glorious change, but of the renewed life of the body and of the general judgment day.

American Author

James Wolcott

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

American Critic

Max Beckmann

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

German Artist

Use 'transfiguration' to describe a significant, positive change in appearance or form, often with a sense of wonder.

Positive Change

It's often used in literature and arts, suggesting a magical or profound transformation.

Literary Substance

The word can be used metaphorically to describe deep, internal changes in someone's character or perspective.

Metaphorical Use

In Christianity, it specifically refers to the miraculous event of Jesus' transformation on a mountain.

Christian Event

Understanding its religious significance helps recognize its use in Christian holidays and artwork.

Significance

Recognize its use in culture, such as Renaissance art, expressing divine or supernatural change.

Cultural Reference

 Architectural photography -- Julius Schulman, who has talked about transfiguration, took this fabulous, famous picture of the Kauffman House. Architectural photography is extremely glamorous. It puts you into this special, special world.

Transfiguration