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# The Prophet Jonah and the Whale
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/prorok-iona-i-kit/
- Published: 2023-05-31T09:10:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:36:29.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Science, Nature

The Prophet Jonah and the whale. By Tommaso di Antonio Finiguerra, an artist of the early Italian Renaissance and the Florentine school.

It is curious that, in place of a whale, Finiguerra drew the heraldic dolphin of Florence, enlarged to improbable dimensions.

As for the likelihood of surviving inside the belly of a marine mammal, scientists suppose that it might be possible. In the case of the killer whale, for instance, which has a special compartment in its stomach for the preliminary storage of food. Or in the case of the sei whale or the fin whale, which pushes food into an air chamber, a continuation of the nasal cavities, where a grown man could quite comfortably fit, and if the swallowed object goes no further, the whale spits it out. Legends describe a living man being found inside the belly of a slain sperm whale in 1758 and 1891.