Lace Mills and the Last Supper: A Window in Beeston Parish Church

In a previous blog piece, I mentioned the habit some renaissance painters had, of painting saints and other figures from the religious past in landscapes which would be recognisable to the viewers.  The background of this image of St. Jerome, for example, is apparently a town near where the picture was painted.

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As I suggested, it gives an odd effect to the painting, as if the viewer were standing with the saint, looking back at the town they know, bringing the two worlds into collision.  The...