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St. Jerome in His Study by Albrecht Dürer, 1514
This one's grouped with two other Dürer engravings as his 'Master Prints,' from what I've read — three prints meant to show off everything the medium could do.
Erisava: I can't believe this much detail fits on something the size of a book page.
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Saint Sebastian by Odilon Redon, 1910
For most of his life he drew in black and white — charcoal nightmares, spiders with human faces — and apparently only went over to colour near the end. He came back to this same saint several times.
Erisava: This is meant to be a man being executed. The background is entirely oblivion to that.
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The Last Communion of Saint Jerome by Sandro Botticelli, 1495
Legend has it Saint Jerome asked for one last communion right before he died in his cell — it's not actually in the Bible, from what I can tell, just a story that stuck around for centuries.
Erisava: This looks like a full church service, not a deathbed. Did they really move him?
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Sint-Joris en de draak by L.O. Wenckebach, 1959
From what I've read it's the city's war memorial. It's Saint George, but instead of trampling the dragon he's standing over it — the beast is carved into the wall under his feet, and the war years are cut into the corner of the stone.
Erisava: He's won, and he looks miserable about it.