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Painting of an old kneeling man in white receiving communion from a priest in a pink cope, with monks and an acolyte beside an altar under a vaulted roof.

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

A tempera painting of an elderly man kneeling in a white robe before an altar, receiving communion from a priest in a pink cope. Two monks and an acolyte stand nearby beneath a brick-patterned vaulted roof, with a palm tree and a red disc behind the altar.

Artist
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)
Date
early 1490s
Medium
Tempera and gold on wood
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
3019 × 4000 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1499).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

Español: La última comunión de San Jerónimo

Una pintura al temple de un hombre anciano arrodillado con túnica blanca ante un altar, recibiendo la comunión de un sacerdote con capa rosa. Dos monjes y un acólito permanecen cerca, bajo un techo abovedado con patrón de ladrillos, con una palmera y un disco rojo detrás del altar.

Português: A última comunhão de São Jerônimo

Uma pintura a têmpera de um homem idoso ajoelhado, de túnica branca, diante de um altar, recebendo a comunhão de um sacerdote com capa rosa. Dois monges e um acólito ficam por perto, sob um teto abobadado com padrão de tijolos, com uma palmeira e um disco vermelho atrás do altar.

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