Patinir was one of the first European painters to make landscape the real star. Saint Jerome kneels in prayer, but your eye soon wanders off into a vast blue fantasy world of jagged rocks, rivers and distant towns.
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The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Joachim Patinir, ca. 1515. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).