TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista
(b. 1696, Venezia, d. 1770, Madrid)

Apparition of the Virgin to St Simon Stock

1749
Oil on canvas, 533 x 432 cm
Scuola Grande dei Carmini, Venice

Tiepolo decorated the ceiling in the Scuola dei Carmini with the canvases Apparition of the Virgin to St Simon Stock, together with virtues and allegories.

Swathed in a full, dazzling light and supported by a sensual flight of angels, the Virgin Mary appears to St Simon, promising him eternal salvation in exchange for accepting the scapular, the gentle yoke of Christ.