The ''Madonna and Child with St Jerome'' is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio, painted in 1481 and housed in the Gemäldegalerie of

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Description

The painting shows an infrequent composition, with the Virgin holding the Child who writes on a book, an allusion to his intervention in the Holy Books. On the right is St. Jerome, recognizable by his cardinal dress, leaving a book on the marble throne where the Madonna sits: in this case this is one of his traditional attributes of knowledge. Jesus wears a pearl-lined coif which can be seen in another Pinturicchio's work of the period, the ''

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'' (c. 1475), now at the Borghese Gallery. The theme, used also by

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, was later abandoned by the Umbrian artist in favour of a free, curly hair. On the right is an open landscape, a typical element of the Renaissance Umbrian school.

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* {{15C-painting-stub 1481 paintings Paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Pinturicchio Pinturicchio Books in art