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The children's book of art (1909)

Conway, Agnes Ethel, Conway, Martin, Sir · London : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 86

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nd the books and writingmaterials are so tiny that some are inevitably lostin this beautiful photograph. The study is reallya part of a monastery assigned to St. Jeromehimself, his books, manuscripts, and other suchpossessions. He has a pot of flowers and a dwarftree, and a towel to dry his hands… … St. Jerome in his Study.From the picture by Antonello da Messina, in the National Gallery. London. THE RENAISSANCE 65 have sometimes painted him as they thought helooked when living in a horrible desert, as hedid for four years. But at the time this picturewas painted, about the year 1470, St.…

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