The Good Samaritan

Giuseppe Zannoni (1849–1903) attended the Cignaroli Academy in Verona, later moving to Milan to complete his studies at the Brera Academy, where he followed the teachings of history painter Giuseppe Bertini. He initially specialized in sacred painting, an activity he would resume in the last decades of the 19th century after receiving a series of commissions from ecclesiastical patrons in the Verona and Milan areas. His canvases appear distinctive for their clear technical accuracy and well-studied, straightforward chromaticism. "The Good Samaritan" is part of Giuseppe Zannoni's sacred production and has as its subject the episode of the parable of Jesus narrated in the Gospel according to Luke, in which a Samaritan rescues a wanderer beaten and robbed by robbers on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho, narrated in the New Testament.