Tobias and the Angel
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The boy does not know who is walking beside him. In the Book of Tobit the angel Raphael travels unrecognised, calling himself Azariah, and Filippino paints the not-knowing. The National Gallery of Art's essay on moving pictures watches the pair totter midstride down a gentle slope, weight on the downhill leg, trailing foot lifted, heads partly inclined toward each other, as if their eyes will meet.
George Goldner, writing for the Met, names this panel for Filippino's animated line and its naturalistic landscape. The slope keeps them walking. The painter leaves them one step short of that meeting look.
Sources: National Gallery of Art / Oxford University Press, Italian Renaissance Learning Resources, 'Moving Pictures', read 2026-09-24 · George R. Goldner, 'Filippino Lippi (ca. 1457–1504)', Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, read 2026-09-24 · USCCB, New American Bible (Revised Edition), Tobit 5, read 2026-09-24 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1939.1.229, read 2026-09-24 · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection record K418, read 2026-09-24
And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man?
Tobit 5:6 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
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