Tobit Burying the Dead, 1640s, Oil on canvas, 50 1/4 x 68 1/2 in. ( x 174 cm), Paintings, Andrea di Lione (Italian, Naples

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Tobit Burying the Dead, 1640s, Oil on canvas, 50 1/4 x 68 1/2 in. ( x 174 cm), Paintings, Andrea di Lione (Italian, Naples 1610–1685 Naples), 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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