Tobit Burying the Dead 1640s Andrea di Lione Italian In the 1640s, Andrea di Lione was in Rome, where he knew both Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Nicolas Poussin. The pronounced classicism of this painting, including the extensive use of ancient architecture, is indebted to both artists. The cloaked figure represents the Old Testament character Tobit, a devout Jew who, in defiance of orders from his king, directed the burial outside the city of Nineveh of Jews whom the king had Tobit Burying the Dead 436891

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