# Miracle of St Paul on the Island of Malta [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TENIERS, David the Elder]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 54 x 83 cm ## Commentary Miracle of St Paul on the Island of Malta 1620-23 Oil on panel, 54 x 83 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg David Teniers the Elder is indebted to Adam Elsheimer, whom he must have known in Rome during his stay there, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Elsheimer's influence is strikingly obvious in a number of paintings dating between 1606 and the 1620s, with biblical, mythological and allegorical subjects, such as the Miracle of St Paul on the Island of Malta. It is evident in the classicist landscapes structured with the large stands of trees or massive crags, in the picturesque and colourful figures in oriental dress. ## Related artworks - [Christ on the Road to Calvary \(detail\)]() - [Christ on the Road to Calvary]() - [St Christiana]() - [The Alchemist]() - [Venus Visiting Vulcan's Forge]() - [Village Feast]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()