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A man wearing a cloak tied around his body kneels with his hands together at the foot of a crucifix, set against a rocky outcropping on this stone panel. The scene is shallowly carved in low relief from pale, apricot-peach marble. Both the kneeling man, Saint Jerome, and the man hanging on the cross have raised, disk-like halos. Slightly right of center, the kneeling man looks up at the cross from under heavy brows. He has hollow cheekbones and short hair. His robe is tied over his shoulders and falls across his hips, but his feet and slender arms are bare. The man on the cross is smaller in…

Saint Jerome in the Desert

Desiderio da Settignano (Florentine, c. 1429 - 1464)

c. 1461 · marble

National Gallery of Art · Widener Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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