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Cosmas and Damian before Lycias
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Fra Angelico
A handmade oil painting of Cosmas and Damian before Lycias by Fra Angelico, painted by hand on canvas for a calm, gallery-ready wall piece.
Description
Description
Some paintings ask a room to be quiet around them, and this is one of them. Hung in a study or a hallway with soft light, Cosmas and Damian before Lycias sets a tone of stillness and gravity, the kind of image that rewards a second look rather than a passing glance.
About Cosmas and Damian Before Lycias
The scene comes from the legend of two physician saints, brought before the Roman prefect Lycias and condemned for their faith. Fra Angelico arranges the figures with a clarity that was rare for his time, each pose readable at once, yet the space between them carries its own quiet weight. Gold, blue, and warm flesh tones sit against a restrained ground, and the light falls evenly, without harsh shadow, in keeping with the calm devotional purpose the panel was made to serve.
This work belongs to the predella scenes Angelico painted for the high altarpiece of San Marco in Florence, a body of work completed in the early 1440s while he was a friar at the convent there. The brushwork is fine and controlled, built up in thin layers, with a linear precision that owes something to his training as a manuscript illuminator. Even in a small narrative panel, the figures hold themselves with the same measured dignity found in his larger devotional paintings, and the story reads clearly across the whole composition.
The hand-painted reproduction
Our reproduction is a handmade oil painting, built up in the same sequence of layers, with a trained painter matching the palette stroke by stroke rather than reproducing it by machine. The gold tones, the flesh colours, the quiet architecture behind the figures, all of it is carried across by hand, and the canvas keeps the texture of real paint, the slight ridge of a brushstroke, the depth that comes from pigment laid over pigment. This is what makes it an oil painting reproduction rather than a copy printed flat: the surface itself does the work of resemblance, not just the image.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives gallery-ready for immediate display
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
- Backed by 90 day returns with a full refund or a free replacement, no restocking fee
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Worldwide shipping included. Each painting is produced to order and safely packed for international transport.
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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
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