The left wing of Luca Signorelli's Agosino altarpiece shows this figure bowing before Mary Magdalene.
The left wing of Luca Signorelli's Agosino altarpiece shows this figure bowing before Mary Magdalene. Perugino depicted this figure wearing a red cloak and supporting two men on the gallows, while Pontormo depicted this figure's "penitence." In a pair of paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, this figure is depicted with a bare torso struggling against the elements. Leonardo da Vinci imagined him as an old man in a desolate landscape, accompanied by a lion. In Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck, he is diminutive and unfurls a scroll on the bottom right. Often shown holding a rock during his time in the desert, he thumbs a Latin text at his desk in a painting by Caravaggio depicting him in his study. For 10 points, name this father of the church who translated the Vulgate.
The left wing of Luca Signorelli's Agosino altarpiece shows this figure bowing before Mary Magdalene.
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