alien spacecraft from a painting done in 1700’s.
A disk shaped object is shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus - Fitzwilliam Musuem, Cambridge, England - Painted in 1710 by Flemish artist Aert De Gelder. It depicts a classic, hovering, silvery, saucer shaped UFO shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus. What could have inspired the artist to combine these two subjects?
We see a space ship.
The artist and his contemporary viewers saw a hole in the floor of heaven, with angels and saints peering down on the terrestrial plain as if from a balcony in the sky, with a beam of heavenly light pouring through to bless John the Baptist and Jesus.