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[]

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  Tobias and the Angel (Verrocchio), painting

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  Tobias and the Angel (Filippino Lippi), painting

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  Three Angels and Young Tobias, painting, by Filippino Lippi

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  Tobias and the Angel, print by Wenzel Hollar

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  Tobias and the Angel, Piero and Antonio Pollaiuolo, Galleria Sabauda, Turin, painting

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  Landscape with Tobias and the Angel, Denis van Alsloot and Hendrik de Clerck

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  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