ROSSELLINO, Antonio
(b. 1427, Settignano, d. 1479, Firenze)

St Jerome in the Wilderness

c. 1470
Marble, 42 x 39 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Narrative reliefs played an important role in Florence after Lorenzo Ghiberti's first set of bronze doors for the Baptistery. Small reliefs like the present marble were often made for private devotions in a family chapel.




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