At the Uffizi Art Museum in Florence, I was attracted by this painting "-three angels and young tobias. This painter was Francesco Botticini, a Florentine painter in the early Italian Renaissance, and studied under Leonardo da Vinci. The picture is bright and bright, and rarely the clothes of the three archangels in the same frame are different, even the feathers are different ... Simple judgment: Michael is on the left, Raphael is in the middle, and Gabriel is holding a lily on the right. Raphael has a little boy in his hand, a fish in his hand, and his eyes are gentle, as if he were following him, accompanied by a puppy.

Among the three archangels, Michael was sent to fight Satan, and Satan became a dragon. Gabriel is responsible for sending messages to those whom God loves, while Raphael represents the miracle that "God heals everything", which not only heals human body, but also people's beliefs. So, what is the origin of tobias, the boy who was lucky enough to walk with angels and carry fish on his back? You must look for the answer from the Bible.

Biography of tobias (English: The Book of Tobias, Greek: τ ω β? τ, Hebrew: Tobih) or translated as the Book of Tobit is a part of the Old Testament of Catholicism and Orthodox Church, but it is not included in the Old Testament of Protestantism, and it has been quoted many times in the important Jewish classic Talmud and other Jewish rabbis' documents.

Tobias, the son of Tobit, was a member of an Israeli family exiled to Assyria. God sent the angel Raphael to accompany tobias to find a medicine to cure his father tobias's eye disease. When tobias first met Raphael, he didn't know that he was one of the seven archangels before the throne of God. Young tobias paid a dollar a day to hire Raphael to travel with him, accompanied by tobias's dog. They experienced many adventures along the way. Raphael accompanied tobias on the journey, protected him from all dangers, finally found love and marriage, and got the medicine his father needed.

Adventure in the trip: tobias was attacked by a big fish in the Tigris River and almost bit off his foot. With Raphael's help, he killed the big fish and saved its gallbladder, heart and liver. The "big fish" may be transformed from crocodiles. According to ancient legends, the crocodile's heart and soul can exorcise evil spirits.

When I arrived in Platana, Madaya, I met a woman named Sarah. She was possessed by a demon, and all her seven husbands died on their wedding night. Raphael asked tobias to cook fish hearts and livers, drove away the demon Asmottai attached to Sarah with smoke, cured Sarah and married her. After returning to his hometown, Raphael also taught tobias to cure his father's eye disease with the fish gall he got at the beginning, and they celebrated the wedding and Tobel's eyesight (Raphael was holding a panacea for eye diseases).

Hint: The classic artistic modeling of the three archangels in the Bible mainly includes the following: Michael "fought Satan" in The Last Judgment and blew the horn of doom; Gabriel was "informed of the concept of the virgin Mary", "prevented Isaac from offering sacrifices" and "appeared to Moses in the burning thorns"; Raphael taught Noah to build an ark, wrestle with Jacob and walk with tobias. The story of tobias was very popular during the Italian Renaissance, and many masters had paintings with the same theme.

Andrea del verrocchio's studio in Florence has trained many artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Francesco Potic, domenico Girandio and Pietro Perugino. The picture above shows Raphael and tobias by verrocchio's studio. It is said that Leonardo da Vinci also participated in the work. ...

Raphael and tobias painted by Titian are meticulous, steady and powerful.

Rembrandt painted Raphael to help tobias treat his father's eye disease. Master Lun's "The Magic of Light and Shadow": The robes and wings of the angel give off golden light, while other characters and backgrounds in the painting are hidden in dark tones, forming a sharp contrast. The Louvre also has an oil painting by Rembrandt, Archangel Raphael Leaving tobias's House. You can search online if you are interested.

This oil painting is the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner, a famous British romantic landscape painter, watercolor painter and oil painter, and it has not yet been completed. This may be Turner's second visit to Rome, and it comes from his manuscript 1828. Tivoli in the painting is a scene that Turner often uses in Italian landscape paintings. How can I put it? This painting can only be seen as a landscape painting, but as always, it embodies Turner's unique description of water vapor.

The popularity of the theme of tobias walking with Raphael is of practical significance. It is often used by family members to celebrate their son's trip, and the theme of curing old Tobit's eye disease is often used to make a prayer picture.