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Tobias and the Angel is a painting, finished around 1470-1480, attributed to the workshop of the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 painter Andrea del Verrocchio
Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an Italy sculpture, goldsmith and Painting who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence....
. It is housed in the National Gallery
National Gallery, London

The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
 of London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. This altar painting shows close relationship with an earlier painting depicting Tobias and the Angel, by Antonio Pollaiolo.

According to Oxford art historian Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp (art historian)

Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day....
, Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
, who was a member of Verrocchio's studio, may have painted some part of this work, most likely the fish.






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Tobias and the Angel is a painting, finished around 1470-1480, attributed to the workshop of the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 painter Andrea del Verrocchio
Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an Italy sculpture, goldsmith and Painting who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence....
. It is housed in the National Gallery
National Gallery, London

The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
 of London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. This altar painting shows close relationship with an earlier painting depicting Tobias and the Angel, by Antonio Pollaiolo.

According to Oxford art historian Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp (art historian)

Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day....
, Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
, who was a member of Verrocchio's studio, may have painted some part of this work, most likely the fish. David Alan Brown, of the National Gallery in Washington, attributes the painting of the fluffy little dog to him as well. If so, this would be perhaps the first extant example of a painting with input by Leonardo.