Title of the painting: Vision During a Mass

Name of the artist: Belisario Corenzio

Date: ca. 1630

Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Description: Worshippers kneel at the steps of the altar. The priest officiating the mass, his back turned to the congregation is looking up in rapture, hands raised in amazement, to a vision of God the Father high on a cloud, upheld by angels, overlooking the Mass below, while the Dove of the Holy Spirit shines the light upon the Scriptures proferred by angels.

Visual description: This vertical composition is a drawing executed with brush and gray, white, and light blue gouache on brown laid paper. The scene captures a moment of divine revelation within a church interior. In the lower foreground, worshippers are kneeling in prayer at the foot of an altar. Above them, a priest celebrating Mass, seen from the back, raises his hands in astonishment, gazing upward towards a heavenly apparition. The upper register of the image is filled with a swirling vision of God the Father seated on clouds, supported by angels, with the Holy Spirit represented as a dove shedding divine light upon the scene.

License: Public Domain / See here

Source: Wikimedia