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TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista: Apparition of the Virgin to St Simon Stock

🖼 Apparition of the Virgin to St Simon Stock, 1749
Oil on canvas
533 × 432 cm
Venice, Italy

Celestial light floods downward as the Virgin descends amid swirling clouds and cherubs, her figure luminous against shadowed architecture below. Tiepolo's dramatic chiaroscuro and dynamic composition epitomize Venetian Baroque grandeur, celebrating the Carmelite order's spiritual vision through heavenly theatricality.

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