# Return of Jacob with His Family [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BASSANO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 150 x 205 cm ## Commentary Return of Jacob with His Family c. 1580 Oil on canvas, 150 x 205 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice This painting is part of the decoration of the Sala del Anticollegio in the Palazzo Ducale. Jacopo Bassano used the pretext of this biblical episode to paint a characteristically simple rural scene. It is one of Bassano's many interpretations of the biblical theme of travel as an allegory of life's existential wanderings an the spirit's journey in search of salvation. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Kings \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Kings]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Garden of Eden]() - [God speaks to Noah after the Flood]() - [Great Market \(detail\)]() - [Great Market]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()