Tobias and the Angel

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

Tobias and the Angel (Verrocchio), painting
Tobias and the Angel (Filippino Lippi), painting
Three Angels and Young Tobias, painting, by Filippino Lippi
Tobias and the Angel, print by Wenzel Hollar
Tobias and the Angel, Piero and Antonio Pollaiuolo, Galleria Sabauda, Turin, painting
Landscape with Tobias and the Angel, Denis van Alsloot and Hendrik de Clerck
Landscape with Tobias and the Angel, Salvator Rosa

Certosa di Pavia Altarpiece, by Perugino (c. 1496-1500)
"Tobias and the Angel", print by Hercules Seghers
"Tobias and the Angel", 1875 painting by Evelyn De Morgan
"Tobit with the Angel", Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Literature and theatre

Tobias and the Angel (1930), a play by James Bridie (1888–1951)
Tobias and the Angel (opera) (1999), a community opera
Tobias and the Angel, 1975 novel by Frank Yerby

External links

Media related to Tobias and the Angel at Wikimedia Commons

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