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Girolamo di Romano, called
Il Romanino
Italian, ca. 1484-ca. 1562

Madonna and Child with St. James
Major and St. Jerome, ca. 1512
Oil on panel

Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 58.45

The infant Christ on the lap of his mother, Mary,
is attended by the Apostle James on the left and
St. Jerome on the right. The infant holds the Bible
for Jerome, who translated it into Latin.