Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)
The Last Communion of Saint Jeromeearly 1490s
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) painted this in the early 1490s, aged about 46. It is now at The Met in New York. More about this work
About this work
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) painted this in the early 1490s, aged about 46. It is now at The Met in New York.
How it was made
- Gold ground
- Gold leaf laid over a red clay and burnished to a mirror shine, often tooled with punches so it flickers in candlelight. Behind sacred figures it stands for heavenly light.
- Tempera
- Pigment bound with egg yolk. It dries in minutes and can’t be blended wet, so painters built up form with fine, hatched strokes. It was Europe’s main panel technique before oil.
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)
Italian, 1444–1510 · Born and died in Florence.
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Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 14.40.642
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Paintings
- Department
- European Paintings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
