Giovanni Bellini, “Virgin and Child With Saint John the Baptist and a Female Saint in a Landscape,” circa 1501. (J. Paul Getty Museum) Giovanni Bellini, “Crucifixion,” circa 1495-1500.

It was painted when he first arrived in Rome and became a sensation for its realism and sensuality. Saint Jerome (1605-6) was painted for Cardinal Borghese and shows the biblical scholar with his ...

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Fast forward 800 or so years, and Jerome begins to have his moment. A reform movement in the Church, embodied most successfully by the Franciscan Orders, was looking for its heroes and St Jerome ...

Specifically, it was the two male saints, St Peter and St Jerome, that transfixed me. The other figures – the female martyrs, the Madonna and Child, the musical angel – weren't really involved.

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Giovanni Bellini’s “St. Francis in the Desert” is regarded by many as the most beautiful painting in America. I’m with the many — although I reserve the right to nominate another ...