Botticelli
The Last Communion of St. Jerome

Early 1490s
Tempera and gold on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

The Metropolitan Museum's online commentary on this painting identifies the literary source as an account of the saint's death written in the 12th century but ascribed to Jerome's friend Eusebius of Cremona.

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Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.