Group of Three Panels: Last Communion of St. Jerome, The Man of Sorrows, The Death of St. Jerome  1500

These three panels were once the “predella,” or base, of a large altarpiece. Predellas are often painted to depict scenes from the lives of the figures represented in the larger central section of the altarpiece. This predella includes two scenes from the life of Saint Jerome, one of the four Latin church fathers who was renowned during the Renaissance for both his learnin...