SCHOOL of UMBRIA. About 1490. (Tempera, w. 8 x 14.) An ascetic painting, representing St. Jerome in the wilderness, and St. Francis receiving the stigmata. He is attended by his friend, the friar Leo, who is said to have been a witness of the appearance in the heavens of a seraph with six wings, between which was the form of a man crucified, whence darted streams of light that stamped his person with the wounds of Christ,--a miracle which took place after forty days' fasting in a cell on Mount Alverna, which is represented in this picture. Above, a miniature annunciation; and, below, a Pieta. On the back are the arms of the Medici Family. [P. 48.]
Descriptive Catalogue of "Old Masters," collected by James J. Jarves, to illustrate the History of Painting from A.D. 1200 to the best periods of Italian Art, and deposited in the "Institute of Fine Arts," 625 Broadway, New York. Cambridge: H.O. Houghton & Co., Riverside Press. 1860.
