Tobias and the Angel is the title given to paintings and other artworks depicting a scene from the Book of Tobit in which Tobias, son of Tobit, meets an angel without realising he is an angel (5.5–6) and is then instructed by the angel what to do with a giant fish he catches (6.2–9).
Paintings
- Filippino Lippi, Three Angels and Young Tobias (c. 1485)
- Madonna of the Umbrella, Girolamo dai Libri, 1530s
- Titian, Tobias and the Angel (c. 1540–1545)
- Denis van Alsloot and Hendrik de Clerck, Landscape with Tobias and the Angel (17th century)
- Tobit with the Angel by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
- Tobias and the Angel (1875) by Evelyn De Morgan
Other
- Gothic corner, Doge's Palace, Venice
- Andrea della Robbia, c. 1475, part of a glazed terracotta tabernacle
- Engraving from the Otto prints, Florence, around 1475
- Stained glass, Netherlands, c. 1500
- Group of two limewood sculptures carved in 1516 by Veit Stoss, now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.[1]
- Silver plaquette by Matthäus Merian the Elder, 1627-1650
- Wenceslaus Hollar, Tobias and the Angel, copying a painting by Adam Elsheimer
- Bible illustration by Gustave Doré, 1866
- Tobias and the Angel by Hercules Seghers
Literature and theatre
- Tobias and the Angel (1930), play by James Bridie (1888–1951)
- Tobias and the Angel (opera) (1999), community opera
- Tobias and the Angel, 1975 novel by Frank Yerby
Notes
- ↑ "Catalogue entry" (in German). Retrieved 20 November 2020.
External links
- Media related to Tobias and the Angel at Wikimedia Commons
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