BASSANO, Jacopo
(b. ca. 1515, Bassano, d. 1592, Bassano)

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.