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LIPPI, Filippino: St Jerome

🖼 St Jerome, 1490s
Oil on wood
136 × 71 cm
Florence, Italy

Rendered in luminous tempera, the saint kneels in rocky wilderness, his skeletal frame and lion companion bathed in spiritual light. Lippi's intimate devotional image synthesizes Northern detail with Italian Renaissance grace, establishing the hermit saint as a model of penitential virtue for Renaissance viewers.

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E. H. Gombrich
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