Loggia di raffaello, 07, 01

A young Joseph stands in a pastoral landscape, gesturing toward two circular visions appearing in the sky. One vision depicts the sun, moon, and eleven stars, while the other shows eleven sheaves of grain bowing to an upright central sheaf, as his brothers listen with expressions of skepticism and concern.

This scene illustrates the concept of prophetic dreaming, a central theme in Renaissance natural philosophy and Neoplatonism. It represents the idea that the divine communicates through celestial symbols and natural omens, a topic extensively analyzed by thinkers who sought to reconcile biblical revelation with classical theories of divination.