The Two Holy Families with Saint Roch (or James), Tobias and Raphael, and a Shepherd

Bonifazio Veronese painted this Two Holy Families with Saint Roch (or James), Tobias, and the Archangel Raphael around 1525, a complex devotional composition grouping multiple sacred figures in the extended sacra conversazione format favored by Venetian altarpiece painting. Working in Venice as one of the most productive followers of Palma Vecchio and Titian, Bonifazio developed a distinctive approach to large-format sacred painting that combined rich Venetian coloring with carefully organized multi-figure compositions. The inclusion of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael—from the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit—alongside the Holy Family created an extended devotional assembly whose narrative richness exceeded the standard sacra conversazione format. Bonifazio's warm palette and confident figure construction give the complex composition its visual coherence and devotional substance.

The composition spreads multiple narrative and devotional elements across a broad landscape in the Venetian pastoral tradition. Bonifazio's warm palette and fluid brushwork derive from his study of Palma Vecchio and Titian.