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St Jerome in his Study (detail)
1480
Fresco, 184 x 119 cm
Ognissanti, Florence

by Domenico Ghirlandaio (b. 1449, Firenze, d. 1494, Firenze)

In contrast with the St Jerome Ghirlandaio painted in Cercina, this St Jerome is not depicted as a penitent but as the scholarly translator of the Bible.