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Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Artist: Master of Saint Augustine (Netherlandish, ca. 1490). Culture: South Netherlandish. Dimensions: 54 1/4 x 59 in. (137.8 x 149.9 cm)
Other (greatest thickness): 3/8 in. (1 cm). Date: ca. 1490.
This painting was the central panel of a triptych dedicated to Saint Augustine (354-430), a Christian theologian so celebrated that he is sometimes called a Doctor of the Church. The composition is divided into five scenes: in the center, Saint Augustine is consecrated bishop of Hippo Regius, a Roman city in present-day Algeria; in the upper left, Saint Augustine is ordained as a priest; in the lower left, Saint Augustine preaches while his mother, Monica, anachronistically says the rosary, a prayer regimen of the late Middle Ages. At the upper right, Saint Augustine converses with a boy who says that filling a hole in the sand with the sea is no more difficult than explaining the Trinity; and in the lower right, Saint Augustine preac...