Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
Hagar in the Desert
fresco — 1726 - 1729
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo biography
This work is linked to Genesis 21:17
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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Hagar and Ismael in the desert. Hagar was a slave to Sarah, the wife of Abraham who could not bear children. Abraham had a son with Hagar: Ismael. Years later Sarah miraculously did give birth to child, and had Abraham send Hagar and her kid away.
In the desert they soon run out of water. Hagar tells the boy to sit under a bush, in order to get some shadow. God hears the boy cry, and points Hagar to a well.
This is one of the fresco's that Tiepolo made for the bishop's palace in Udine.
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