Madonna and Child with St Jerome and Mary Magdalene

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Madonna and child attended by standing figure of St Jerome, Mary Magdalene and child angels with a landscape in the background. St Jerome holds a scroll and is accompanied by a lion. medium: oil on canvas technique: painting artist (after): Correggio University College Chapel, Lampeter, Ceredigion Nineteenth-century copy of the original of 1525-8, 235 x 141 cm in the Galleria Nazionale, Parma, Italy. Presented to the chapel of St David's College, Lampeter in 1827 by John Scandrett Harford of Falcondale, Lampeter, to serve as an altarpiece. It remained in situ until replaced by the present reredos in the 1930s, since which time it has hung in the chapel in the (liturgical) south aisle.  (ObjectID=1567 ImageID=2992) Original File Name=_MG_1902Ae.jpg

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• Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap 
• the monk and hermit Jerome (Hieronymus) 
• the penitent harlot Mary Magdalene 

Photo © Martin Crampin