This painting might initially not look like much but, on closer examination, perhaps you will like it as much as I do. The rabbits, the plants, the bird at the top. And good old doughty Jerome, sitting at his book, so fit and alert. By Giovanni Bellini, 1505, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
P.S. At first I thought this work was missing St. Jerome's lion, a most regrettable omission. But look - there he is after all, in the lower right corner.
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