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Devotional painting for a Florentine guild (Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries?): Saints Cosmas and Damian; [Left predella]: Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg; [Right predella]: Decapitation of Saints Cosmas and Damian
Devotional painting for a Florentine guild (Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries?): Saints Cosmas and Damian; [Left predella]: Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg; [Right predella]: Decapitation of Saints Cosmas and Damian
Devotional painting for a Florentine guild (Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries?): Saints Cosmas and Damian; [Left predella]: Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg; [Right predella]: Decapitation of Saints Cosmas and Damian

Devotional painting for a Florentine guild (Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries?): Saints Cosmas and Damian; [Left predella]: Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg; [Right predella]: Decapitation of Saints Cosmas and Damian

Artist (Italian, active in Florence circa 1359–1374)
Datecirca 1370–1374
MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel
DimensionsMain panel: 53 5/8 x 31 ¼ x 1 5/8 in. (135.6 x 79.4 x 4.1cm.)
Left predella: 7 ¼ x 16 1/8 x 1 ¼ in. (18.4 x 41 x 3.2 cm.)
Right predella: 7 ¼ x 16 x 1 ¼ in. (18.4 x 40.6 x 3.2 cm.)
Frame: 68 x 33 1/2 in. (172.7 x 85.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object numberGL.60.17.9/a-c
On View
On view
Panel from a dismembered altarpiece: Saint John the Evangelist and the Poisoned Chalice
Francescuccio Ghissi (Francesco di Cecco Ghissi)
circa 1370–1380