# The Prophet Elisha [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VASARI, Giorgio]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on wood, 40 x 29 cm ## Commentary The Prophet Elisha c. 1566 Oil on wood, 40 x 29 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence This composition is a typical example of a painting for private worship, a genre that was popular with Vasari. The subject is a scene from the life of the Prophet Elisha, who during famine saved his people making edible wild herbs. Elisha is one of the biblical prophets whose miracles prefigured those of Christ. A man in the middle ground carries a basket, because Elisha miraculously multiplied the available food. In spite of the modest size of the work, the artist insists on elaborating a composition of great complexity and refinement, characteristics which would reappear in the profane paintings of the Studiolo executed thirty years later. ## Related artworks - [Abraham and the Three Angels]() - [Allegory of the Immaculate Conception]() - [Allegory Related to Alchemy]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling of the Sala del Cinquecento \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()