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A group of four people gather around a person in a bed, seen through an open doorway to our left, while a man and woman stand near a second doorway of a beige building in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin. Seen through the arched opening in the room to our left, two people with flat, plate-like gold halos offer a vessel to the person sitting up in bed. The people with the halos wear raspberry-pink and white cloaks over aquamarine-blue robes. They each also wear a cap with a red, mushroom-like top over a white band that encircles the head. The person sitting up in bed…

The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian

Fra Angelico (Florentine, c. 1395 - 1455)

c. 1438/1440 · tempera and oil on poplar panel

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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