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Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)
St. Jerome Punishing the Heretic Sabinian, 1503
Oil on panel, 10 1/8 x 16 1/2 in. (25.7 x 41.9 cm.)
Purchased with funds from Mrs. Nancy Susan Reynolds, the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation, Julius H. Weitzner, and the State of North Carolina, 65.21.1
This painting was one of three predella panels that were originally framed below Raphael's Crucifixion, painted for a church in the central Italian town of Città di Castello. Although one of Raphael's earliest works, the painting already reveals the delic ate grace which distinguishes his mature style. The subject of this panel is extremely rare in Renaissance art. After his death, St. Jerome appears in the sky to rescue Bishop Sylvan, a good Christian falsely accused of heresy. As St. Jerome halts the executioner's sword, the head of the true heretic, Sabinian, is miraculously severed from his body.
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