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Description: | St Roch is lifting his tunic to show the plague boil on his right thigh. He is a French saint associated with the plague after having cured several victims by making the sign of the cross over them. It was believed that if you prayed to him that you would not die from the plague. The painting is in oil on a cardboard mixture. It was later transferred to canvas. It is by an Italian fifteenth-century painter, possibly Umbrian. | Subjects: | figure; religion (St Roch) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8332... | Go to resource |
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St Roch
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