c. 1490-1500
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Bartolomeo di GiovanniItalian (active Florence), active 1458? - 1501
Italian Renaissance humanists were devoted to Saint Jerome, an intellectual renowned for his scholarship and for translating the Bible into Latin. Depictions of his last communion were relatively uncommon in painting until the seventeenth century; this scene probably came from a predella (the bottom tier of an altarpiece) showing multiple episodes of the saint’s life and legend.
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