Hektoen International

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Tag: Susan Brunn Puett

  • Santa Margherita da Cortona

    Susan Brunn Puett J. David Puett Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States   Fig 1. Plaque on Porta Berarda commemorating Margherita and son’s entrance into Cortona. Photo by Sailko on Wikimedia. CC BY 3.0. From humble beginnings to years as a mistress, Margherita altered her path to become a tertiary Franciscan penitent, attending the ill…

  • Partners in healing: An early renaissance painting depicting the partnership of the divine with the physicians Cosmas and Damian

    Susan Brunn Puett J. David Puett Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States     St. Cosmas and St. Damian by Matteo di Pacino (painted 1370-1375). Located in the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Although the original location of the painting is not known, it was probably commissioned by the Guild of…

  • The Florentine Renaissance apothecary

    Susan Brunn Puett Chapel Hill, NC, USA J. David Puett Athens, GA / Chapel Hill, NC   Fig. 1: Copies of two pages from the 1597 edition of the Ricettario fiorentino di nuovo illustrato. Left panel: Frontispiece. Right panel: Page 72 showing saffron (zafferano)as one of the included ingredients. From the Swiss electronic library of…