Tobias and the Angel

One of the most painted subjects of the Italian Renaissance, and it is easy to see why: a road, a boy, a fish, a dog and a companion the audience knows is an angel while the boy does not. Verrocchio's workshop, where the young Leonardo is often credited with the fish and the dog; Botticini, Perugino, Filippino Lippi, Titian, Rembrandt, Claude. Plus the Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopian and Russian icon traditions.

Part of Saint Raphael

164 moments in this segment.

1. 1395 - Puccinelli: Tobit Blessing His Son Tobias. Angelo Puccinelli, 1390s, Philbrook Museum of Art. A trecento Sienese panel of Tobit blessing Tobias as Raphael waits.
2. 1415 - Eriskirch: Tobias and Raphael, choir painting. A wall painting of about 1410-1420 in the choir of the pilgrimage church at Eriskirch, Germany, showing Tobias with the archangel. Modern photograph of the medieval mural.
3. 1425 - Pisanello: the Archangel Raphael. A fresco figure of the Archangel Raphael by Pisanello, 1424-26, International Gothic.
4. 1430 - Bicci di Lorenzo: Scenes from the Story of Tobias. Bicci di Lorenzo, early 15th century, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. A narrative panel with Tobias taking leave of his father and setting out with the archangel.
5. 1460 - Antonio del Pollaiuolo: Tobias and the Angel. Antonio del Pollaiuolo, c. 1460. Accepted at 564 px as the standard reproduction of a key Florentine treatment.
6. 1460 - Neri di Bicci: Raphael and Tobias in a predella. A predella panel by the Florentine painter Neri di Bicci showing the archangel with Tobias. Modern photograph of the 15th-century panel.
7. 1460 - Neri di Bicci: The Archangel Raphael and Tobias. A panel attributed to Neri di Bicci, possibly 1457-63, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
8. 1460 - The Archangel Raphael and Tobias, Florentine panel. A second Florentine panel of the archangel and Tobias, possibly 1457-63, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
9. 1465 - Benozzo Gozzoli: Tobias and the Fish. Benozzo Gozzoli, 1464-65. Florentine Renaissance fresco of Tobias with the fish and the angel.
10. 1465 - Gozzoli: Raphael and Tobias. A detail from Benozzo Gozzoli's 1464-65 treatment of the archangel and Tobias. Accepted at 550 px as the available reproduction.
11. 1466 - Mazone: The Archangel Raphael with Tobias. Giovanni Mazone, 1466, Kunsthaus Zurich. Ligurian Renaissance panel of the archangel leading Tobias.
12. 1467 - Giovanni di Piamonte: Archangel Raphael and Tobias. A 1467 Italian Renaissance panel of Raphael and Tobias. Modern photograph of the painting.
13. 1467 - Pollaiuolo: Archangel Raphael and Tobias. The Pollaiuolo brothers' Archangel Raphael and Tobias, 1465-70, Galleria Sabauda, Turin.
14. 1467 - Pollaiuolo brothers: Tobias and the Angel. The Galleria Sabauda panel by Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo of Raphael leading Tobias.
15. 1470 - Botticini: Tobias and the Angel. Francesco Botticini, c. 1470, Uffizi. One of the defining Florentine Renaissance treatments of Raphael guiding Tobias, with the fish and the dog.
16. 1471 - Verrocchio workshop: Tobias and the Angel. The National Gallery panel from Andrea del Verrocchio's Florentine workshop, c. 1470-72, and the most famous of all Tobias and the Angel paintings. Leonardo da Vinci is thought to have painted the fish and the dog.
17. 1472 - Verrocchio workshop: the dog (detail). A detail of the little dog in the Verrocchio workshop Tobias and the Angel. The dog, taken from the Book of Tobit, became a fixture of the subject and is often attributed to the young Leonardo.
18. 1472 - Verrocchio workshop: Tobias and the Angel, the National Gallery panel. The Verrocchio workshop panel of 1470-75 in the National Gallery, London. Accepted at 585 px as a further view of the central work.
19. 1475 - Verrocchio: Tobias and the Angel, c. 1470-80. A reproduction of the Verrocchio workshop composition. Accepted at 564 px for a canonical work.
20. 1475 - Andrea della Robbia: Raphael and Tobias. Glazed terracotta relief by Andrea della Robbia, c. 1475. Modern photograph of the Florentine Renaissance sculpture.
21. 1475 - Biagio d'Antonio: The Archangel Raphael with Tobias. Biagio d'Antonio, 1475, Florentine Renaissance. Accepted at 277 px only as the sole reproduction of a scarce panel.
22. 1480 - Caporali: Archangel Raphael and Tobias. An Umbrian Renaissance panel by Bartolomeo Caporali of Raphael with Tobias.
23. 1485 - Archangel Raphael with Tobias, Florence Cathedral sacristy. A Florentine panel of 1480-90 in the sacristy of Santa Maria del Fiore showing the archangel with Tobias and a young man.
24. 1490 - Giovanni Santi: Tobias and the Archangel Raphael. Panel by Giovanni Santi (father of the painter Raphael Sanzio) in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino, showing the archangel guiding Tobias. Italian Renaissance, late 15th century.
25. 1496 - Perugino: Archangel Raphael with Tobias, 1496. Pietro Perugino, 1496. Part of the Certosa di Pavia altarpiece, now largely in the National Gallery, London.
26. 1500 - After Perugino: Tobias and the Angel. A print after Pietro Perugino of the Archangel Raphael leading Tobias, one of the standard Umbrian Renaissance treatments of the subject.
27. 1500 - Stained glass: Tobias defeats the fish. Southern Netherlandish stained glass of about 1500 in the Museum Schnuetgen, Cologne. Modern photograph of the medieval glass.
28. 1502 - Perugino: Tobias with the Angel Raphael. Pietro Perugino, c. 1500-1505. Umbrian Renaissance panel of the archangel with Tobias. Accepted at 434 px as the standard reproduction of a key work.
29. 1505 - Stained-glass roundel: Tobias draws the fish from the water. A Netherlandish stained-glass roundel of about 1500-1510 showing Tobias pulling the fish ashore. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
30. 1512 - Andrea del Sarto: The Archangel Raphael with Tobias. Andrea del Sarto, 1512, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Raphael and Tobias flanked by Saint Leonard and the kneeling donor Leonardo di Lorenzo Morelli.
31. 1513 - Palma il Vecchio: The Archangel Raphael with Young Tobias. Palma il Vecchio, c. 1513, Venetian Renaissance. Accepted at 750 px as the available reproduction.
32. 1513 - Titian: The Archangel Raphael and Tobias. Titian, c. 1512-14, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. The Venetian master's early treatment of the subject.
33. 1520 - Jan Provoost: Adoration of the Magi with Tobias and the Angel. An early Netherlandish panel in which Tobias and the archangel appear alongside the Adoration of the Magi.
34. 1520 - Marcantonio Raimondi: Raphael Leading Tobias. Italian Renaissance engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi: the archangel strides forward gripping the hand of Tobias, who carries a small fish.
35. 1521 - Jan van Scorel: Landscape with Tobias and the Angel. Jan van Scorel, 1521. An early Netherlandish landscape with the two travellers.
36. 1522 - Altobello Melone: Tobias and the Angel. Altobello Melone, 1521-23, north Italian Renaissance. Accepted at 341 px only as the sole available reproduction of a scarce work.
37. 1530 - Bacchiacca: Tobias and the Angel. A panel by the Florentine Mannerist Bacchiacca of Tobias walking with the archangel. Modern photograph of the 16th-century painting.
38. 1530 - Titian: Raphael and Tobias, Madonna dell'Orto. A Titian Archangel Raphael and Tobias of 1530 in the Vendramin chapel of the Madonna dell'Orto, Venice.
39. 1537 - Titian and workshop: Madonna and Child with Tobias and the Angel. Titian and his Venetian workshop, c. 1535-40, Royal Collection. The archangel presents Tobias to the Virgin and Child.
40. 1543 - Tobiolus Catches the Fish. A 1543 print from a Story of Tobias narrative series, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
41. 1550 - Urbino maiolica plate: Tobias and the Angel. An Italian tin-glazed earthenware plate made in Urbino about 1550 and painted with Tobias and the archangel. Modern photograph of the Renaissance object.
42. 1550 - Michele Tosini: The Archangel Raphael with Tobias. Attributed to the Florentine Mannerist Michele Tosini, 16th century. Photograph of the painting.
43. 1580 - De Jode after Hans Bol: Gutting the Fish. A 16th-century Flemish engraving by Gerard de Jode after Hans Bol of the fish being opened at Raphael's instruction. National Gallery of Art.
44. 1580 - Kerstiaen de Keuninck: Landscape with Tobias and the Angel. A Flemish 16th-century landscape painting with Raphael and Tobias travelling through wooded country.
45. 1581 - Tobias and the Angel, 1581. A 1581 Netherlandish engraving of Raphael and Tobias. Rijksmuseum.
46. 1582 - Goldsmith's pendant design: Tobias and the Angel. A 1582 engraved design for a jewelled pendant in which a fish carries Tobias and the angel. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
47. 1585 - Tobias and the angel take leave of Tobit and Anna. A 1585 Netherlandish engraving of the departure scene from the Book of Tobit, published in the Theatrum Biblicum. Rijksmuseum.
48. 1585 - The Departure of the Angel Raphael, 1585. A 1585 Netherlandish engraving of Raphael revealing himself and departing. Rijksmuseum.
49. 1585 - The Fish Catch, from a History of Tobias series. A late 16th-century Netherlandish print of Tobias and the angel taking the fish, from a narrative series on the Book of Tobit. Rijksmuseum.
50. 1590 - Hans von Aachen: Tobias and the Angel. Late-Mannerist painting of Raphael and Tobias by the German court painter Hans von Aachen, c. 1567-1600.
51. 1598 - Jan Brueghel the Elder: Landscape with Young Tobias. Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1598. A dense Flemish landscape in which Tobias and the angel travel.
52. 1600 - Stove tile: Tobias with the fish and the angel. A moulded ceramic stove tile showing Tobias with the fish beside the archangel, from a German decorative-arts collection. Modern photograph of the historic tile.
53. 1608 - Goudt after Elsheimer: The Small Tobias. Hendrick Goudt's 1608 engraving after Elsheimer, known as the small Tobias, which spread the composition across Europe.
54. 1608 - Tobias and the Angel, small plate. Engraving by Hendrick Goudt after Adam Elsheimer, 1608, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
55. 1610 - Elsheimer: Tobias and the Angel Raphael. Adam Elsheimer's small copper panel of the Archangel Raphael striding beside Tobias, who carries the great fish. German Baroque, early 17th century; digitised from the Rijksmuseum original.
56. 1610 - Tobias and the Angel (Johnson Museum). Painting after Adam Elsheimer of the archangel and the boy on their journey to Media. Early 17th century.
57. 1610 - Adam Elsheimer: Tobias and the Angel, in Washington. A version after Adam Elsheimer showing Raphael leading Tobias along a wooded riverbank, the fish slung at his side and the dog running ahead. Early 17th-century German Baroque.
58. 1610 - Van Alsloot: Landscape with Tobias and the Angel. Denys van Alsloot, Flemish, 1573-1630. Walters Art Museum.
59. 1610 - Landscape with Tobias and Raphael cleaning the fish. A Netherlandish print, 1591-1634, of the angel instructing Tobias to gut the fish and keep the gall, heart and liver. Rijksmuseum.
60. 1612 - Bilivert: The Archangel Refuses Tobias's Gift. Giovanni Bilivert, 1612, Galleria Palatina, Florence. Raphael refuses payment, the moment before he reveals his identity.
61. 1613 - Goudt: Tobias and the Angel. Dutch engraving of 1613 showing the archangel leading Tobias, who carries the fish.
62. 1613 - Goudt after Elsheimer: The Large Tobias. Goudt's 1613 engraving after Elsheimer, the large Tobias, with the angel striding through a dark river landscape.
63. 1613 - Lastman: The Angel and Tobias with the Fish. Pieter Lastman, 1613, Dutch history painting of Tobias landing the fish.
64. 1613 - Tobias and the Angel, large plate. Engraving by Hendrick Goudt after Adam Elsheimer, 1613, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
65. 1615 - Gaspar de Crayer: Tobias and the Angel. Gaspar de Crayer, before 1618, Flemish Baroque.
66. 1617 - Landscape with Tobias and the Angel, 1617. A 1617 landscape print in which Raphael and Tobias appear as small figures in a wide Italianate scene. Rijksmuseum.
67. 1618 - Lastman: The Angel Raphael Takes Leave. Pieter Lastman, 1618. Rembrandt's teacher painting Raphael's departure and self-revelation.
68. 1620 - Tobias and the Angel by a follower of Elsheimer, at the Walters. A 17th-century version after Adam Elsheimer illustrating Tobit chapters 5-6. Walters Art Museum.
69. 1620 - Jan Brueghel the Younger: Landscape with Tobias and the Angel. A Flemish landscape with the travellers, late 16th to 17th century.
70. 1620 - Joos de Momper: Tobias's Journey. Joos de Momper, first half of the 17th century. A Flemish mountain landscape carrying the Tobias story.
71. 1620 - Tobias and the angel on the road. A 1620 print of Raphael and Tobias travelling, with the dog at their heels. Rijksmuseum.
72. 1620 - Tobias startled by the fish. A 1620 Netherlandish print: Tobias recoils as the great fish rises at him, the angel steady behind. Rijksmuseum.
73. 1621 - Domenico Fetti: Tobias and the Angel. Domenico Fetti, c. 1621, Gemaeldegalerie Dresden. Italian Baroque treatment of the journey.
74. 1625 - Van Poelenburch: Tobias and Raphael. Cornelis van Poelenburch, 1625, Dutch Italianate. Accepted at 650 px.
75. 1627 - Bloemaert: Shepherd Boy Pointing at Tobias and the Angel. Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1625-30, Minneapolis Institute of Art. A Dutch pastoral in which a shepherd points out the pair.
76. 1629 - Bartolome Roman: San Rafael. Bartolome Roman, c. 1628-30. A Spanish Golden Age image of Saint Raphael with the fish. Accepted at 364 px as the sole reproduction of a scarce Spanish work.
77. 1630 - Caracciolo: Tobias and the Angel. Battistello Caracciolo, Neapolitan Caravaggesque painter, by 1635.
78. 1630 - Tobias and the Angel, c. 1630. A Netherlandish print of about 1630 showing the archangel and the boy in a landscape. Rijksmuseum.
79. 1640 - Vaccaro: Tobias and the Fish. Andrea Vaccaro, c. 1640, Neapolitan Baroque.
80. 1640 - Vaccaro: Tobias Meets the Archangel Raphael. Andrea Vaccaro, c. 1640, Neapolitan Baroque. The first meeting of Tobias and the disguised archangel.
81. 1640 - Swanevelt: Tobias Frightened by the Fish. Etching by the Dutch Italianate landscapist Herman van Swanevelt of Tobias recoiling from the fish. National Gallery of Art.
82. 1640 - Jan Lievens: A Landscape with Tobias and the Angel. Jan Lievens, April 1640, Dutch Golden Age.
83. 1640 - Tobias and the Angel, 17th-century sculpture. A carved group of Tobias and the archangel, c. 1627-50, Rijksmuseum.
84. 1641 - Rembrandt: The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobias. Rembrandt's 1641 painting of the moment Raphael reveals himself and ascends, leaving Tobit and Tobias prostrate. Dutch Golden Age.
85. 1648 - Tobias and the Angel, 1644-52. A mid-17th-century print of the archangel and Tobias, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
86. 1650 - Le Sueur: The Angel Leaving Tobias. Eustache Le Sueur, French 17th century, Musee de Grenoble. Photograph of the painting.
87. 1650 - Circle of Rembrandt: Tobias Catching the Fish. A drawing from Rembrandt's circle of Tobias hauling the fish from the Tigris while the angel looks on. Dutch, 17th century.
88. 1650 - Attributed to Van Hoogstraten: Tobias Frightened by the Fish. A Dutch Golden Age painting attributed to Samuel van Hoogstraten of Tobit 6:2-4, the fish attacking Tobias at the river.
89. 1650 - Delft tapestry: the story of Tobias. A 17th-century Delft tapestry woven with the story of Tobias and the angel. Modern photograph of the historic textile.
90. 1650 - Salvator Rosa: Tobias and the Angel, the Louvre canvas. A second Salvator Rosa treatment of the subject, 17th century, in the Musee du Louvre.
91. 1650 - Hollar: Tobias and the Angel. Etching by the Bohemian printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) of Raphael and Tobias on the road.
92. 1650 - Hollar: Tobias and the Angel, third state. A later state of Hollar's etching of the archangel and Tobias, 17th century.
93. 1652 - Antonio de Pereda: Tobias. Antonio de Pereda, 1652, Spanish Baroque. Accepted at 600 px.
94. 1660 - Neyts: Landscape with Tobias and the Angel. A 17th-century Flemish landscape etching by Gilles Neyts with Raphael and Tobias as staffage. National Gallery of Art.
95. 1660 - Karel Dujardin: Tobias and the Angel. Karel Dujardin, c. 1660, Dutch Italianate painting. Accepted at 534 px.
96. 1660 - Salvator Rosa: Tobias and the Angel, painted about 1660. Salvator Rosa, Neapolitan Baroque, by 1673. A stormy landscape with Raphael and Tobias, characteristic of Rosa's wild manner.
97. 1663 - Claude Lorrain: Landscape with Tobias and the Angel. Claude Lorrain, 1663. The classical ideal landscape into which the tiny figures of Raphael and Tobias are set, a favourite Claudian device.
98. 1668 - Jan Steen: Tobias and Sarah Pray as Raphael Binds the Demon. Jan Steen, 1668. The wedding-night scene in which Raphael binds the demon Asmodeus while Tobias and Sarah pray.
99. 1670 - After Valentin Lefebvre: Tobias and the Angel. A reproduction after the Flemish-Venetian printmaker Valentin Lefebvre of Tobias and the archangel.
100. 1690 - Eglon van der Neer: Tobias and the Angel. Eglon van der Neer, 1690, Dutch.
101. 1690 - Tobias and the Angel, Rijksmuseum. A 1690 Dutch painting of Tobias with the archangel, Rijksmuseum.
102. 1708 - Perrier: Tobias and the Angel with the Fish. A French painting of Tobias and the archangel with the fish, 1708.
103. 1723 - Pierre Parrocel: The Departure of Young Tobias. Pierre Parrocel, 1723, French.
104. 1740 - Giaquinto: Tobias and the Angel. Corrado Giaquinto, c. 1740, Italian Rococo. Accepted at 791 px.
105. 1745 - Czechowicz: Tobias and the Angel. Szymon Czechowicz, 1740s, Polish Baroque.
106. 1750 - Guardi: The Angel Appears to Tobias. Giovanni Antonio Guardi, c. 1750, from the Venetian Angelo Raffaele organ-parapet cycle. Accepted at 704 px.
107. 1750 - Tobias and the angel in a classical landscape. A mezzotint of Raphael and Tobias walking through an Italianate classical landscape. Wellcome Collection.
108. 1755 - Norbert Grund: Tobias and an Angel. Norbert Grund, c. 1755, Bohemian Rococo.
109. 1760 - Losenko: Tobias with the Angel. An 18th-century Russian painting of Tobias and the archangel by Anton Losenko.
110. 1775 - Dutch tile: Tobias catches the great fish. A Dutch tin-glazed wall tile of 1750-1800 painted with Tobias seizing the fish. Modern photograph of the antique tile.
111. 1790 - Peter Francis Bourgeois: Tobias and the Angel. A painting by Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois, English, late 18th century, Dulwich Picture Gallery.
112. 1800 - The angel Raphael among the animals of Eden. An engraving of the archangel Raphael appearing among the animals of the garden, a Miltonic subject. Wellcome Collection.
113. 1808 - William Blake: the Angel Raphael. An 1808 watercolour by William Blake of the archangel Raphael in a Miltonic scene.
114. 1820 - San Rafael y Tobias, Museo del Romanticismo. An 1820 Spanish painting of Saint Raphael with Tobias, Museo del Romanticismo, Madrid. Accepted at 511 px.
115. 1830 - Delacroix after Rembrandt: The Angel Raphael Leaves Tobias. Eugene Delacroix's copy after Rembrandt of the angel's departure, showing the subject carried into 19th-century French painting.
116. 1835 - Turner: Tivoli, Tobias and the Angel. J. M. W. Turner, c. 1835, Tate. The English Romantic sets the biblical pair into a luminous Italian landscape.
117. 1840 - Ingres: Saint Raphael the Archangel (study). A drawing by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres of the Archangel Raphael, Musee du Louvre. Accepted at 345 px as the sole reproduction.
118. 1842 - Study for a stained-glass Archangel Raphael, Neuilly. A c. 1842 French study for a stained-glass window of the Archangel Raphael in the chapel of Notre-Dame de la Compassion, Neuilly. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
119. 1860 - Rossetti: Tobias in the House of His Father and Mother. A Pre-Raphaelite drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti of the homecoming in the Book of Tobit. Accepted at 944 px.
120. 1860 - Rosales: Tobias and the Angel. Eduardo Rosales Gallinas, 1858-63. Spanish 19th-century treatment.
121. 1860 - Bouguereau: Tobias Saying Goodbye to his Father. William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1860. French academic painting of the departure scene.
122. 1902 - Fritz von Uhde: Tobias and the Angel. Fritz von Uhde, 1902. A German realist reworking that puts the biblical pair in a contemporary setting.
123. 1905 - Malczewski: Angels with Tobias. Jacek Malczewski, after 1900. The Polish Symbolist recast the Tobias story repeatedly in modern dress.
124. 1909 - Benedito Calixto: Tobias and the Angel. Benedito Calixto, 1909. A Brazilian painting of the subject. Accepted at 550 px as scarce Latin American material.
125. 1919 - Rembowski: The Return of Tobias. A 1919 painting by the Polish artist Jan Rembowski of Tobias returning home with the archangel.
126. 1924 - Malczewski: Tobias and the Angel. Jacek Malczewski, 1924, National Museum in Warsaw. The Polish Symbolist returned to the subject repeatedly. Accepted at 584 px.
127. 2006-01-01 - Della Robbia relief, Museo di Santa Croce. A glazed terracotta relief in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce, Florence. Photograph taken 2006 of the Renaissance sculpture.
128. 2011-01-01 - Weissenau: ceiling painting of the Archangel Raphael. A Baroque ceiling painting of the Archangel Raphael in the abbey church of Weissenau, Germany. Photograph taken 2011 of the 18th-century fresco.
129. 2011-10-01 - Byzantine Ivory Panel with an Archangel, c. 525-550. A Smarthistory look at the sixth-century ivory leaf from Constantinople in the British Museum showing an archangel, one of the finest surviving early Byzantine images of an angelic figure.
130. 2011-11-14 - Verrocchio and Leonardo: Toward the High Renaissance. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker on the Baptism of Christ from Verrocchio's workshop, where Leonardo's hand is visible. The same workshop produced the Tobias and the Angel in which Leonardo is often credited with the fish and the dog.
131. 2011-12-19 - Lastman's Angel Raphael Takes Leave of Tobit and Tobias - a conservator's view. Conservator Anne Haack Christensen of the National Gallery of Denmark discusses Pieter Lastman's painting of Raphael's departure, the moment in Tobit 12 when the angel reveals his identity. Lastman was Rembrandt's teacher.
132. 2011-12-20 - Lastman's Angel Raphael Takes Leave of Tobit and Tobias - a researcher's view. Senior researcher Eva de la Fuente Pedersen of the National Gallery of Denmark discusses Pieter Lastman's treatment of the angel's departure at the close of the Tobit narrative.
133. 2013-01-01 - Carlone: The Fishing of Tobias, Genoa. A fresco by Giovanni Battista Carlone of Tobias catching the fish, Genoa. Photograph taken 2013 of the Baroque work.
134. 2015-01-01 - Tobias and the angel, Riga Cathedral gallery. A painted panel of Tobias and the archangel in the gallery of Riga Cathedral, Latvia. Photograph taken 2015.
135. 2017-01-01 - Nicolas Tournier: Tobias and the Angel, Narbonne Cathedral. A painting by the French Caravaggesque Nicolas Tournier in Narbonne Cathedral. Photograph taken 2017 of the 17th-century canvas.
136. 2019-01-01 - Jacopo Vignali: Tobias and the Angel. A painting by the Florentine Baroque artist Jacopo Vignali. Photograph of the 17th-century canvas.
137. 2019-09-13 - The Life of Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci's Mentor. A National Gallery of Art film on Andrea del Verrocchio, the Medici favourite whose Florentine workshop produced the Tobias and the Angel now in London and trained Leonardo, Perugino and probably Botticelli.
138. 2019-11-21 - Cleavers, Poison and Snakes: How to Spot Saints in Paintings. Edward Dickenson of the National Gallery's learning team demonstrates how attributes let a viewer identify saints and angels in devotional painting, the same visual grammar that marks Raphael out by his fish and pilgrim's staff.
139. 2019-11-22 - Verrocchio: A Curator's Quick Tour. Exhibition curator Andrew Butterfield tours highlights of the Verrocchio exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, on view September 2019 to January 2020.
140. 2020-04-05 - How to Recognise Saints in Art - Smarthistory. Steven Zucker and Beth Harris explain the attribute system by which figures in Christian art are identified. Raphael is conventionally recognised by the fish, the travelling staff and the boy Tobias at his side, which distinguishes him from Michael and Gabriel.
141. 2020-06-08 - A Curated Look at Angels - National Gallery. Joost Joustra, the National Gallery's fellow in art and religion, decodes how angels were painted in the Renaissance, including Botticini, whose archangel altarpieces place Raphael with Tobias.
142. 2020-09-25 - Art for the Feast of the Holy Archangels. A survey of paintings of Michael, Gabriel and Raphael assembled for their shared feast on 29 September, showing how each archangel was given a distinct visual identity in Western art.
143. 2020-10-20 - An Angel in Ivory: Classicism and Christianity. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker discuss the sixth-century Byzantine ivory archangel in the British Museum, and how classical sculptural language was carried into Christian images of angels.
144. 2021-01-01 - Baratta: Archangel Raphael and Tobias. A 1698 marble group by Giovanni Baratta in Santo Spirito, Florence. Modern photograph of the Baroque sculpture.
145. 2021-01-01 - Pinzolo: fresco of Tobias and Raphael. A fresco of Tobias with the archangel in the church of San Lorenzo, Pinzolo, in the Italian Alps. Photograph taken 2021 of the older mural.
146. 2021-02-18 - Benozzo Gozzoli's Tobias and the Archangel at San Gimignano. A Sienese guide presents Benozzo Gozzoli's 1465 painting of Tobias and the archangel in the church of Sant'Agostino, San Gimignano. Italian-language.
147. 2021-04-30 - Restoring the Archangel Raphael and Tobias at Santo Spirito, Florence. Documentation of the 2021 conservation of a painting of Raphael and Tobias in the Basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence, funded by a private foundation. Italian-language.
148. 2021-07-13 - Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence - exhibition introduction. The National Gallery of Art introduces the first American monographic exhibition on Andrea del Verrocchio, whose workshop produced the celebrated Tobias and the Angel and trained Leonardo da Vinci and Perugino.
149. 2022-03-19 - Domenico di Michelino, Tobias and the Three Archangels - Accademia di Firenze. The Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence presents Domenico di Michelino's panel of Tobias walking with Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, explaining how each archangel is identified by his attributes. Raphael carries the fish and the travelling staff.
150. 2022-05-23 - Botticini's The Three Archangels with Tobias, Explained. An art teacher walks through Francesco Botticini's Uffizi altarpiece, in which Michael, Raphael and Gabriel flank the small figure of Tobias. Raphael is the one who takes the boy's hand and carries the fish.
151. 2022-06-18 - Botticini: The Three Archangels and Tobias. A short Spanish-language presentation of Francesco Botticini's Uffizi altarpiece showing Michael, Raphael and Gabriel together with the boy Tobias.
152. 2022-09-17 - The Story of Tobias in Painting - KTO. A French Catholic television segment on how painters treated the Tobias story, asking why some canvases dress the Old Testament family as seventeenth-century Dutch burghers while others dissolve the figures into vast landscape. French-language.
153. 2023-01-01 - Coronation of the Virgin with Michael and Raphael. A Sicilian polyptych of about 1425 showing the Coronation of the Virgin between the archangels Michael and Raphael. Photograph of the panel.
154. 2023-01-01 - Stained glass: Tobias and the Angel, Galway Cathedral. A stained-glass window in Galway Cathedral, Ireland, depicting Tobias with the Archangel Raphael. Modern photograph (2023) of 20th-century glass.
155. 2023-01-06 - Giovanni Santi's Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, Urbino. Giovanni Santi (c. 1440-1494), father and first teacher of the painter Raphael Sanzio, painted this Tobias and the Archangel Raphael now in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino. Italian-language.
156. 2023-06-20 - Rembrandt's Anna and the Blind Tobit at the National Gallery. A close look at the National Gallery's Anna and the Blind Tobit, attributed to Rembrandt and Dou, showing the blinded Tobit of the story's opening chapters before Raphael's arrival.
157. 2024-01-09 - Rembrandt, Tobit and Anna with the Kid, 1626. A description of Rembrandt's early panel of the blind Tobit and his wife Anna quarrelling over a goat, an episode from Tobit chapter 2. The dog sits beside Tobit at the fire.
158. 2024-12-22 - A Closer Look at Verrocchio's Tobias and the Angel. A detail-by-detail look at the Verrocchio workshop's Tobias and the Angel in the National Gallery, London. The fish and the small dog are often attributed to the young Leonardo da Vinci, then an apprentice in the workshop.
159. 2025-01-01 - Stained glass: Tobias and the angel, Rottingdean. A stained-glass window showing Tobias with the archangel in the church at Rottingdean, England. Modern photograph.
160. 2025-01-31 - Painting as a Science: Central Italy, 1450-1500. A survey lecture on innovations in geometry and anatomy in fifteenth-century central Italian painting, the artistic context in which the Tobias and the Angel subject flourished in Florentine workshops.
161. 2026-02-02 - Neri di Bicci, Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, c. 1475. A close look at the Florentine painter Neri di Bicci's altarpiece pairing Tobias and Raphael with several saints, an example of how routine the subject became in fifteenth-century Florentine workshops.
162. 2026-02-22 - Pollaiuolo's Tobias and the Angel, 1469. An analysis of the Tobias and the Angel painted by Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo in 1469, reading it as a display of Florentine wealth and fashion as much as a biblical scene. The subject was extremely popular with Florentine merchant families whose sons travelled.
163. 2026-05-12 - The Absurd Story of Savoldo's Tobias and the Angel. Claudio Gulli of the Scuola Normale Superiore recounts how Giulio Cantalamessa, director of the Galleria Borghese between 1909 and 1911, fought alone against the scholarly consensus of his day to have Savoldo's Tobias and the Angel recognised as a masterpiece. Italian-language.
164. 2026-08-06 - The Three Archangels Altarpiece by Francesco Botticini - Uffizi curator. Daniela Parenti, curator of fifteenth-century painting at the Uffizi, describes Botticini's altarpiece of the three archangels with Tobias, in which Raphael leads the boy by the hand while holding the fish. Italian-language museum video.