# St Paul Bitten by a Viper on the Island of Malta [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VOS, Marten de]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on wood, 124 x 199 cm ## Commentary St Paul Bitten by a Viper on the Island of Malta c. 1567 Oil on wood, 124 x 199 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Marten de Vos probably began his career in the workshop run by his father, Pieter de Vos. He travelled to Italy around the year 1552 accompanying Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and settled in Rome and Florence. In Venice he worked in Tintoretto's studio as a specialist in landscape painting. Upon his return to Antwerp in 1558 he became the most distinguished Italianate artist in the city. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Seven Liberal Arts]() - [Christ Triumphant over Death and Sin]() - [Nativity]() - [Portrait of Antonius Anselmus, His Wife and Their Children]() - [Return from the Flight to Egypt]() - [Scene from the Life of the Virgin]() - [St Luke Painting the Virgin Mary]() - [The Emperor's Toll]() - [The Family of St Anne \(detail\)]() - [The Family of St Anne]() - [The Marriage at Cana]() - [The Rape of Europa]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()