Beautiful Paintings from the Met’s Collection

“Saint Jerome as Scholar” (c. 1610) by the Greek artist El Greco. This work is not the first El Greco’s painting of Saint Jerome, but this one is notable for the way the artist depicted the saint, both as the ascetic and as the scholarly. The second featured painting is the amazing “Madonna and Child” (c. 1230s) by the Italian artist Berlinghiero Berlinghieri. Both works are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue), one of the best art museums in the world.