Saint Roch

1500-1510 (Renaissance)

41.7 cm 133.7 cm 2.6 cm

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This panel depicts Saint Roch, commonly venerated in the Renaissance as a protector against plague. Roch’s legend claimed that he traveled Europe healing those afflicted by the disease; he is thus commonly shown as here, in the dress of a traveler, carrying pilgrim’s staff and...

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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore, prior to 1916 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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