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Erisava Staff Jul 24

The Healing of Palladia by Saints Cosmas and Damian by Fra Angelico, 1438

The Healing of Palladia by Saints Cosmas and Damian

National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

This is one of nine little panels that used to sit along the bottom of a much bigger altarpiece, for a church called San Marco — they've ended up scattered across different museums since, from what I can find: one in Paris, a few in Munich. The story behind it: a woman named Palladia was healed by these two brothers and tried to thank one of them with a gift, which apparently started an argument between the saints over whether it was okay to accept it.