The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Artist Sandro Botticelli
Year 1494–1495
Medium Tempera on panel
Dimensions 34.3 cm × 25.5 cm (13.5 in × 10.0 in)
Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, finished around 1494–1495. It is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

The small picture is inspired by one of the three apocryphal letters of Saint Eusebius, according to which, before dying, Saint Jerome received the Last Communion from Eusebius himself. The choice of this scene, far less frequent than the usual depiction of Jerome in his studio, has been connected to Girolamo Savonarola's preaching in Florence at the time the work was executed; the latter's commissioner, identified by some scholars as the rich merchant Francesco del Pugliese, would be in fact a followed of the Ferrarese preacher.[1]

The topic was depicted by the baroque Bolognese painter Agostino Carracci in his painting now at the Galleria Nazionale of Bologna, and also by the Baroque painter Domenichino in a painting in the Vatican Museum.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.artonline.it/opera.asp?IDOpera=265

Further reading

Christiansen, Keith (Fall 1983), "Early Renaissance Narrative Painting in Italy", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 41 (2), pp. 12–14 
Horne, Herbert P. (March 1915), "The Last Communion of St. Jerome by Sandro Botticelli", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10 (3), pp. 39+52–56, doi:10.2307/3254048, retrieved 22 May 2017 
——— (April 1915), "The Last Communion of St. Jerome by Sandro Botticelli (Continued)", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10 (4), pp. 72–75, doi:10.2307/3253504, retrieved 22 May 2017 
——— (May 1915), "The Last Communion of St. Jerome by Sandro Botticelli (Concluded)", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10 (5), pp. 101–105, doi:10.2307/3253423, retrieved 22 May 2017 
Zeri, Federico; Gardner, Elizabeth E. (1971), Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Florentine School, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 159–163 
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