Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
The Calling of Isaiah
fresco (200 × 250 cm) — 1726 - 1729
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo biography
This work is linked to Isaiah 6:6
Isaiah 6 - Old Testament
Isaiah 6 1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered
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Isaiah had a position at the court of king Uzziah. After Uzziah's death Isaiah's future became uncertain. In a vision he saw God and a number of angels. Isaiah tells them he lives among a people "of unclean lips". One of the angels then approaches Isaiah and touches his lips with a hot coal: Isaiah's lips and thereby he himself are now cleared of any sin. Isaiah immediately offers to become a prophet.
This is one of Tiepolo's ceiling paintings in the palace of the bishop of Udine
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