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ANDREA DI LIONE. Tobit Burying the Dead

Tobit Burying the Dead. Artist: Andrea di Lione (Italian, Naples 1610-1685 Naples). Dimensions: 50 1/4 x 68 1/2 in. (127.6 x 174 cm). Date: 1640s. The cloaked figure is Tobit, a devout Jew who in defiance of Sennacherib's orders directed the burial of the Jews whom the king had killed outside the walls of Nineveh (Tobit I:17-20). Andrea di Lione was in Rome in the 1640s, where he knew both Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Nicolas Poussin, and this work is indebted to both of those artists.
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Tobit Burying the Dead
Caption:
Tobit Burying the Dead. Artist: Andrea di Lione (Italian, Naples 1610-1685 Naples). Dimensions: 50 1/4 x 68 1/2 in. (127.6 x 174 cm). Date: 1640s. The cloaked figure is Tobit, a devout Jew who in defiance of Sennacherib's orders directed the burial of the Jews whom the king had killed outside the walls of Nineveh (Tobit I:17-20). Andrea di Lione was in Rome in the 1640s, where he knew both Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Nicolas Poussin, and this work is indebted to both of those artists.
Technique/material:
OIL ON CANVAS
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
4190 x 3062 px | 36.7 MB
Print size:
35.5 x 25.9 cm | 14.0 x 10.2 in (300 dpi)
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