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LIPPI, Filippino: The Penitent St Jerome

🖼 The Penitent St Jerome, c. 1485
Tempera on panel
47 × 34 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Skeletal flesh and dramatic chiaroscuro define this penitent saint, rendered with intense psychological realism. Lippi's Jerome embodies fifteenth-century spiritual fervor through raw emotion and anatomical precision, establishing a prototype for Northern Renaissance devotional imagery.

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E. H. Gombrich
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