Saint Jerome

Legend has it—and probably rightly—that after Agostino’s death, his cousin and artistic collaborator Ludovico Carracci turned the plate over to Francesco Brizio, an engraver who had trained with the cousins. Francesco completed the image, but comparison of sections such as Jerome’s left leg and his hat reveal his weakness by comparison to the formidable Agostino. A Roman publisher, Pietro Stefanoni, added the extra plate expressing Christian faith in an afterlife sweeter than earthly pleasures.