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| Giovanni Francesco Maineri Penitent St Jerome ca. 1500 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Jean Bourdichon St Margaret ca. 1503-1508 tempera on vellum, from the Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne Bibliothèque nationale de France |
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| Jean Bourdichon St Sebastian ca. 1503-1508 tempera on vellum, from the Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne Bibliothèque nationale de France |
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| Hans Schäufelein St Jerome ca. 1504-1505 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Giovanni Francesco Penni St Matthew ca. 1510-20 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Virtue
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night,
For thou must die.
Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye;
Thy root is ever in its grave,
And thou must die.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie;
My music shows ye have your closes,
And all must die.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like season'd timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.
– George Herbert (1633)
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| attributed to Correggio (Antonio Allegri) Penitent Magdalen ca. 1518-19 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Girolamo Genga Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria in presence of St Catherine of Siena and St Bernard ca. 1519-39 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Pietro Perugino St John the Evangelist & St Augustine before 1523 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Girolamo Savoldo The Magdalen ca. 1535 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Lorenzo di Credi St Mary of Egypt before 1537 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Gaudenzio Ferrari St Andrew before 1546 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Fermo Guisoni St John the Evangelist, with Angel 1552 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Pellegrino Tibaldi St Paul with St Augustine and an Angel ca. 1554 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Biagio Pupini Young St John the Baptist in the Wilderness before 1575 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Lorenzo Costa Martyrdom of St Barbara ca. 1580 drawing (study for now-lost painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Bernardino Campi St Eligius before his Goldsmith Workshop, giving Alms ca. 1580-90 drawing Musée du Louvre |