# Parable of the Good Samaritan [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FETTI, Domenico]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil an wood, 61 x 45 cm ## Commentary Parable of the Good Samaritan c. 1623 Oil an wood, 61 x 45 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice When Fetti came into contact with Paolo Veronese's clear, luminous colours on his arrival in Venice, his delicate naturalism, which clearly owed a lot to Caravaggio, took a richer turn and he found an ideal vehicle for his airy unrestrained inventiveness in paintings of small dimensions such as the celebrated 'parables'. In the 'Parable of the Good Samaritan' in the collection of the Accademia Galleries the gospel story is used \(even more so than in the previous versions in the collections of the Gemäldegalerie of Dresden, the Metropolitan Museum of New York and Boston Museum\) as a pretext for a skilful, rapid setting of a natural everyday scene caught in the lyrically evoked moment of sunset. ## Related artworks - [David \(detail\)]() - [David]() - [David with the Head of Goliath]() - [Ecce Homo]() - [Flight to Egypt]() - [Hero and Leander]() - [Margherita Gonzaga Receiving the Model of the Church of St Ursula \(detail\)]() - [Margherita Gonzaga Receiving the Model of the Church of St Ursula]() - [Melancholy \(detail\)]() - [Melancholy]() - [Melancholy]() - [Moses before the Burning Bush]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()