Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian attending to a patient. Oil painting by a Venetian painter, 18th century.
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- 44845i
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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian are shown attending to a patient. One of the saints is mixing a medicine on the side. The two saints are wearing academic dress. The painting might be intended to show the verger's dream of the miracle of the black leg. The work is
Physical description
1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 39 x 28.5 cm
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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/66/41
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Attributed to an 18th-century Venetian hand
References note
Not in: Kees W. Zimmerman et al., One leg in the grave: the miracle of the transplantation of the black leg by the saints Cosmas and Damian, Maarsen 1998
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Wellcome Collection 44845i
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