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Description: | The story of Tobias and the angel, from the apocryphal book of Tobit, is a tale of pilgimage and redemption in which the angel Raphael accompanies Tobias on a long journey his father had sent him on. In the course of it he catches a huge fish, the liver and gall of which is is commanded by the angel, to keep. On his return to his parents, the gall cures the blindness of his father Tobit. Panini was an Italian painter and architect, primarily known as one of the vedutisti (view painters). He initially trained in his native town of Piacenza as a stage designer. In 1711 he moved to Rome and became famous as a decorator of palaces. As a painter he is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took particular interest in the city's antiquities. These works especially have a substantial fanciful and unreal embellishment characteristic of capriccio themes. In this painting Tobias and the angel are depicted amongst classical ruins. A third figure watches the scene through an archway above. | Subjects: | religion (Tobias and the Angel); buildings and gardens (classical ruins) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter, ca. 1692-1765) Æ Attributed to manner of Previously attributed to Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter, ca. 1692-1765) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8394... | Go to resource |
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