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A sacra conversazione, or 'holy conversation-piece' is an informal grouping of the Madonna and Child with saints, and sometimes donors, generally in a landscape setting. It was a way of bringing the previously isolated saints of altarpieces into some rapport with one another. It is a quintessentially Venetian type of picture particularly favoured by Palma Vecchio and his successor Bonifazio, to whom this panting is now attributed from the early 1520s. The saints depicted all have associations with Venice, so that this was probably painted for someone in or from that city. On the left is St Jerome, bearded, bronzed, half-naked and holding a cross, in indication of his long period of study and penitence with the hermits in the Syrian desert, where he was befriended by the lion.
Title
Sacra Conversazione with Saint Jerome, Saint Justina, Saint Ursula and Saint Bernardino of Siena
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 90 x W 115.5 cm
Accession number
1420347
Acquisition method
accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the estate of Lady Jane Douglas-Pennant and allocated to the National Trust, 2005
Work type
Painting
