Tobias Healing His Fathers Blindness, c. 1640-45. Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
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Tobias Healing His Fathers Blindness, c. 1640-45. Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Tobias Healing His Fathers Blindness, c. 1640-45. Rembrandt created some of the most extraordinarily creative and emotionally poignant drawings of the Dutch golden age. With spontaneity, a deft hand, and deceptive simplicity, he recorded deeply personal observations of the world around him. Although this drawing depicts the climactic moment of the Book of Tobit, an apocryphal book of the Old Testament, it also references 16th-century life in Amsterdam. Instructed by the archangel Raphael, Tobits son Tobias restores his blind fathers sight by rubbing his eyes with fish gall. But instead of illustrating the miracle in explicitly supernatural terms, Rembrandt showed Tobias using a scalpel to perform a cataract operation on his fathers left eye-a procedure pioneered in Amsterdam in 1635 by the eye specialist Dr. Job Janszoon van Meekren
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1606 1669 Framing Lines In Brown Ink Pen And Brown Ink Rembrandt Van Rijn Rembrandt Van Rijn Dutch
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