Saint Protasius

1484-1492 (Late Medieval)

34.5 cm 77.8 cm 25.5 cm

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Medieval medicine offered few cures. Christians focused their hopes for recovery from illness or accident on their prayers to saints to intercede for them with God. Saints Cosmas and Damian, Protasius and Gervasius, were two pairs of twin brothers who were invoked for their h...

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Hôtel-Dieu, Abbeville, prior to 1904 [from the hospital demolished in 1904]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Gothic
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