# Guardian Angel Tutoring the Christian Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DOLCI, Carlo]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 86 x 65 cm ## Commentary This painting is one of Dolci's many half-length compositions. The angel holds a Bible and with his right hand points to a line therein. The child, his hands clasped together in prayer, looks not at the book, but at the angel, showing with his rapt expression that he has understood the message of the Scriptures. In the seventeenth century the iconography of the guardian angel is generally close to the depiction of Tobias and the angel. ## Related artworks - [Magdalene]() - [Martyrdom of St Andrew]() - [Moses]() - [Portrait of Ainolfo de' Bardi \(detail\)]() - [Portrait of Ainolfo de' Bardi]() - [Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere in Widow's Weeds]() - [Saint Jerome in Prayer]() - [Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [St Catherine]() - [St Catherine Reading a Book]() - [St Cecilia at the Organ]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()