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the standing figure of Saint Jerome represents the same type of saint with long beard and a cardin- al’s mozzetta. He points to the two interacting children, the bambino Gesù greeting San Giovan- nino, a gesture that seems to reverse the pointing of Saint John the Baptist toward Saint Jerome in the d’Estouteville relief panel. Saint John was understood as a precursor of Christ, Saint Jer- ome as his successor and translator.74 The sub- ject of Augustine seeing Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist in his last hour, when Jerome announces Augustine’s impending death, is the topic of several predella paintings from the later fifteenth century in Florence and Fiesole by Lu- ca Signorelli, Benozzo Gozzoli, Matteo di Gio- vanni and others – a clear reflection of the epi- sode’s popularity for altarpieces.75 I would also argue that the position of the two saints in the Salutati Altarpiece right on top of the inscription ‘iuris consultus’ is no coinci- dence. Here, an immediate visual link is created between the learned bishop, his name, his family tradition established by his grandfather Coluc- cio’s engagement with the leading faculty of jurisprudence, and his main two religious figures of identification. These assumptions are further backed up by a closer look at a more ephemer- al but nonetheless important object of self-rep- resentations: Leonardo Salutati’s mitre, which as we have learned, was venerated as a miracle working ‘relic’ after his death (Fig. 12).76 The ob- ject’s main body features twelve silver enameled Fig. 12: Mitre of Bishop Leonardo Salutati, cloth, silver, ena- mel, mid-fifteenth century: Saint Jerome on the application of the left fascia and possibly Saint Augustine on the right, Fiesole Cathedral Treasury. Fig. 13: Bust of Saint Romulus with Leonardo Salutati’s mit- re, 1584, Cathedral San Romolo, Fiesole. The SaluTaTi Tomb in FieSole 165 74 Wiebel, Askese und Endlichkeitsdemut (cit. n. 59), pp. 27–28. 75 R. Jungblut, Hieronymus. Darstellung und Verehrung eines Kirchenvaters, Tübingen 1967, p. 35. 76 See before, p. 158 and Giglioli, La mitria del vescovo Leonardo Salutati (cit. n. 41), pp. 57–60.