# Job and His Children [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIOLA, Domenico]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 176 x 220 cm ## Commentary Job and His Children c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 176 x 220 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao In this painting Piola depicts a complex scene characterised by a marked contrast of light and shade. The figure of Job, who stands on the left and raises his eyes to beg for mercy before the harsh divine trials, balances the composition, crisscrossed by diagonal lines formed by the dead bodies of his children and the architectural elements of the house in ruins. Equally clear is the painter's skill in foreshortening the figure of the dead son in the foreground. ## Related artworks - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Autumn: Bacchus and Ariadne]() - [Bathsheba Attended by Two Women]() - [Ceiling painting]() - [Choir decoration]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Immaculate Conception]() - [Janus and Hercules with Peace \(detail\)]() - [Magdalene in the Desert]() - [Nativity]() - [Vanity]() - [Winter: The Cold Winds Eurus, Borea and Austro]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()