Vision of Ezekiel

A powerful figure of the divine with outstretched arms is elevated by an assembly of an eagle, a lion, an ox, and a human-faced angel among the clouds. Below, in a dark and distant landscape, the prophet Ezekiel is depicted as a tiny figure receiving a beam of divine light. Two small putti flank the central figure, emphasizing the dynamic and weightless nature of the heavenly epiphany.

The work depicts the 'Merkabah' or throne-chariot, a central theme in Jewish mysticism and Christian Kabbalah representing the vehicle of divine manifestation. Renaissance thinkers synthesized this prophetic imagery with Neoplatonic concepts regarding the hierarchy of the celestial spheres and the soul's ascent to divine contemplation.