Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Antonello da Messina - St Jerome in his study - National Gallery London.jpg

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Original – The scene enriched by two landscapes depicted through the windows opening on both sides of the study, a là Mona Lisa. Books, representing knowledge; objects and animals, like a peacock and partridge have symbolical meanings, peacock symbolizing immortality while partridge is a reference to truth/deceit.
Reason
Good scan, good painting. The small painting - 45.7 × 36.2 cm (18 × 14.3 in) - shows
Antonello Messina, Italian Renaissance painter who lived in Messina, Sicily, - was an artist influenced by the contemporary Flemish school: all details he painted was done with "a magnificent taste for detail". The painting is in the National Gallery London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/antonello-da-messina-saint-jerome-in-his-study
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
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Antonello da Messina

Promoted File:Antonello da Messina - St Jerome in his study - National Gallery London.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:34, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]