Taddeo Gaddi
St. Julian
1340s
Tempera on wood, gold ground
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.117.1, Bequest of Lore Heinemann
St. Julian's attribute is a wrapped sword, referring to his regrets after mistakenly killing his parents.
The painting displayed at the museum is actually a cut-down lateral panel from an altarpiece.
Read more about images of St. Julian the Hospitaller.
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Photograph by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.