Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
The Angel Appears to Sarah
fresco (400 × 200 cm) — 1726-28
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo biography
This work is linked to Genesis 21:1
Art and the Bible - Genesis 21 - Old Testament
Genesis 21 1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son th
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At the age of one hundred, Sara gives birth to Abraham's son Isaac. Divine intervention is necessary, and this is probably where the angel comes in.
The list is not an actual list, but is part of the fresco. Such a trick of the eye is known as a trompe-l'oeil.
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