An elderly man kneels and leans back with his arms spread wide as he gazes up at another older man sitting in a chariot made of flames and pulled by white horses, which are held aloft by fawn-brown, puffy clouds, in this horizontal painting. Both men have pale skin and are partially bald with full beards. To our left, the kneeling man is mostly turned away from us, so we see the back of his ash-blond hair, a deeply furrowed brow, and a hooked nose. His head tips back and his mouth hangs open. He wears a long, mahogany-brown robe with a flax-yellow mantle draped over his left shoulder. One…
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Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire

painter Giuseppe Angeli (Venetian, 1712 - 1798)

c. 1740/1755

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 174.6 x 264.8 cm (68 3/4 x 104 1/4 in.) ; framed: 207 x 302.3 x 10.1 cm (81 1/2 x 119 x 4 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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