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The Virgin Mary is seated at the centre of this painting, in the middle of a landscape. She is breastfeeding the infant Christ; a little bird (a coal tit) perched in the large tree behind her also feeds its young. Saints Jerome, kneeling before the Virgin, looks on in devotion. He clutches the stone that he is said to have pounded against his chest to help him resist temptation. Saint Dominic kneels opposite, absorbed in the book he is reading. The white lily, his traditional attribute, alludes to the Virgin’s purity. This altarpiece by Filippino Lippi originally stood on an altar in a chapel belonging to a member of the powerful Rucellai family in the important medieval church of S. Pancrazio in Florence. The elaborate frame is a nineteenth-century reproduction of what may have been the original one.
Title
The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Dominic
Date
about 1485
Medium
Oil and tempera on poplar
Measurements
H 203.2 x W 186.1 cm
Accession number
NG293
Acquisition method
Bought, 1857
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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