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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian in a landscape. Oil painting attributed to A. Pérez de Pineda.
- Pérez de Pineda, Andrés, 1660-1727.
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Credit: Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian in a landscape. Oil painting attributed to A. Pérez de Pineda. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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The two saints stand in a landscape: each is holding the palm (the attribute of martyrdom), Each saint also has some attributes of the physician: a book, an instrument, and an ermine-lined doctoral robe
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1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 45.5 x 63.5 cm
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Attributed to Pérez by Dr. Benito Navarrete. Pérez lived in Seville and worked in the circle of Matías de Arteaga in the last part of the 17th century: for his biography see D. Angulo and E. Valdivieso, loc. cit.
References note
Diego Angulo, Pintura del siglo XVII, Madrid 1971 (Ars hispaniae, vol. 15), p. 366 (referring to signed pictures by Pérez formerly in the destroyed (1931) chapel of San Julián [in Seville])
Enrique Valdivieso, Pintura barroca sevillana, Sevilla 2003, pp. 490-493
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 44844i
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