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# Masaccio's panel of Saints Jerome and John the Baptist for Santa Maria Maggiore
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/utomilis-ili-prosto-ne-v-dukhe/
- Published: 2018-11-03T11:59:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:59:59.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Observations, Rome, Humour

Tired, or simply out of sorts? Saint Jerome (in a crimson cassock) and John the Baptist (bareheaded). Masaccio, 15th century. I could not pass by a depiction of two Church Fathers with such eloquent glances. Curiously, Jerome holds a reliquary or a model of a church resembling the famous Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, while John holds a cross with a base in the form of a column (in Italian also "colonna"), which most probably points us to Pope Martin V, who came from the Colonna family and sponsored the creation of this panel, part of a triptych for that very Santa Maria Maggiore. All in all, rather a fine piece of product placement