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1730-1735

Saint Roch

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Italian (active Venice, Udine, Würzburg, and Madrid) 1696 - 1770

Saint Roch, patron saint of plague victims, is often depicted with a dog at his side in reference to the one that fed him when he himself suffered from the plague.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch, 1730-1735 | Philadelphia Museum of Art