Painting of an old kneeling man in white receiving communion from a priest in a pink cope, with monks and an acolyte beside an altar under a vaulted roof.

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

A tempera painting of an elderly man kneeling in a white robe before an altar, receiving communion from a priest in a pink cope. Two monks and an acolyte stand nearby beneath a brick-patterned vaulted roof, with a palm tree and a red disc behind the altar.

Artist: Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)
Date: early 1490s
Medium: Tempera and gold on wood
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 3019 × 4000 px

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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1499).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

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The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

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