Tobias and the Angel Curing Tobit of Blindness (Q18583951)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
religious art (Q2864737)
artist:
Simon Hendricksz. van Amersfoort (Q18583952)
collection:
Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location:
Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
owned by:
Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet (Q7527795)
Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location of final assembly:
Europe (Q46)
based on:
Book of Tobit (Q131737)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://www.artsbma.org/collection/tobias-and-the-angel-curing-tobit-of-blindness/
information from the Birmingham Museum of Art catalog
description: The subject of this painting comes from the apocryphal Book of Tobit, which tells the story of Tobit, an Israelite living in Assyrian Ninevah. Tobit suffered from blindness and poverty. He sent his son, Tobias, to collect money he had deposited years earlier with relatives and hired a companion to accompany his son. The companion was actually the archangel Raphael in disguise. Their journey was successful: not only was the money recovered, but medicine made from a fish encountered along the way cured Tobit’s blindness.
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