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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch, Google Art Project, San Rocco, Harvard Art Museum, Italian Paintings, Ancient Sculpture, European Paintings, San Sebastian

Tiepolo was one of the most renowned artists in eighteenth-century Venice. Influenced by Venetian Renaissance painters such as Tintoretto and Veronese, he composed numerous religious and mythological scenes, achieving notoriety for his paintings’ vivid color and theatrical effects. In this small canvas, made for private devotion, he depicts Saint Roch, the medieval French nobleman who, according to hagiographic accounts, miraculously healed plague victims while a mendicant pilgrim in Italy…

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Saint Roch / San Roque // 1502 // Francesco Francia // © The Metropolitan Museum of Art Saint Roch, San Rocco, Italian Paintings, History Painting, Royal Academy Of Arts, European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Metropolitan Museum, Art Reproductions

This altarpiece depicts Saint Roch (ca. 1348–1376/79), known as a plague saint for his miracles in curing the sick. He became a popular figure in art following the Black Death in the fourteenth century and the Italian plague outbreak of 1477–79

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