Giovanni di Paolo_ The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 46 ..

45. Giovanni di Paolo. SaintJerome Appearing to Saint Augustine.
Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Berlin-Dahlem
44. Giovanni di Paolo. The Virgin and Angel Holding a Crown.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Mass.,
Bequest of Mrs. Caroline Hill, 1965 (46. I965)
central panel to be in the same mutilated state. This re-
quirement is fulfilled by a panel in the Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum showing an angel holding a crown
over the head of what was evidently a Virgin and Child
enthroned (fig. 44). Two impressive panels from the predella
of this altarpiece survive, one of Saint Jerome Appearing
to Saint Augustine in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin,
and the other of Saint Gregory the Great Staying the Plague
at the Castel SantAngelo in the Louvre (figs. 45, 46). No
complete altarpiece of the same high quality and the same
late date as the three Fathers of the Church has been preserved.
There is, however, in the Lehman Collection a small
panel of the Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and
Agnes, which is painted with the same roughness and the
same rich impasto as the Berlin predella panel (fig. 47). It
has sometimes been dismissed as the work of an assistant,
but there is no reason to suppose that it is anything but
autograph. Designed for private devotion, it bears on its
porphyry-colored back the arms of two Sienese families.
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46. Giovanni di Paolo. Saint Gregory the Great Staying the Plague at
the Castel Sant'Angelo. Louvre, Paris
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