Saint Roch and Saint Laurence. Oil painting by Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo.

  • Garofalo, Benvenuto Tisi da, 1481-1559.
Date:
[between 1500 and 1599]
Reference:
44847i
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On the left, Saint Roch exposes a plague bubo; on the right, Saint Laurence, in a deacon's costume, holds the grill on which he was martyred. Saint Laurence became a patron of those afflicted by burns and by lumbago, and (as a deacon) patron of librarians

Publication/Creation

[between 1500 and 1599]

Physical description

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 28.5 x 56.5 cm

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References note

Anna Maria Fioravanti Baraldi, Il Garofalo: catalogo generale, [Ferrara?]: Casa di Risparmio di Ferrara, [1994?], no. 89, pp. 155-156 (painting reproduced and said to be painted by Garofalo in the 1520s, citing work by Bentini, loc. cit. infra)
J. Bentini, 'Note sul Garofalo', Cultura figurativa ferrarese tra XV e XVI secolo, Ferrara 1981, pp. 179-187 (cited by Fioravanti Baraldi, loc. cit. supra)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44847i

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