Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis
By Francesco Raibolini
1500
Oil on panel, transferred to canvas, re-transferred to panel
24-3/4 x 18-5/8"
The Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena, CA

ST. JEROME AND MARY:  We're staring into the middle distance like a couple of zombies: weird, right?

ST. FRANCIS:  Squishy, I'm having a nice long look at your package and that is not circumcised.  I don't believe you're really Jewish.

SQUISHY: Bitch please, I'm practically inventing the contrapposto stance right here.  I'm changing the course of art history as we know it and I can do that with or without a foreskin.