GOZZOLI, Benozzo
(b. ca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia)

The Departure of St Jerome from Antioch

1452
Fresco
Cappella di San Gerolamo, San Francesco, Montefalco

St Jerome appears dressed as a cardinal, showing him to be one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church. In the Life of St Jerome, who was ordained as a priest after spending two years in the desert of Chalcis, it is not however mentioned that he occupied this position.




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