Lippo Memmi
St. Paul

Circa 1325-30
Tempera on wood, gold ground
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Instead of a book, St. Paul holds several of the letters he wrote to various churches. The letter on top has the superscription AD ROMANOS – i.e, the letter to the Romans.

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