Saint Augustine
By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide
Fra Filippo Lippi's Vision of Saint Augustine. 1450s-1460s.
Fra Filippo Lippi's Vision of Saint Augustine. 1450s-1460s. Tempera on panel. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Olga's Gallery at www.abcgallery.com/L/lippi/flippi16.html
Here is another painting of Saint Augustine with the child trying to scoop the water of the sea into a hole in the beach. When Saint Augustine tells him how impossible that would be, the child responds with a comparison to a mystery of Christianity. The child then disappears.
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