DOSSI, Dosso
(b. ca. 1490, Ferrara, d. 1542, Ferrara)

St Cosmas and St Damian

1534-42
Oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

In his enigmatic work St Cosmas and St Damian, the patron saints of doctors, (from the hospital of S. Anna in Ferrara) Dossi recalls the monumentality and pathos of Michelangelo's figures.