Prospero FONTANA: Holy Family with St Jerome, a female martyr and

Prospero FONTANA: Holy Family with St Jerome, a female martyr and the infant St John the Baptist

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The complex composition of this active Italian work shocases the change of taste that occurred in the mid 16th century.

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