Thus, a long tradition of fresco painting had accustomed the Italian painters to a broad method of treatment, which they maintained to a certain extent even in their panel pictures.

But in our St.Jerome we see a wealth of detail unsurpassed even by John van Eyck.
One needs a magnifying-glass to see everything there is to be seen in the landscape through the window on the left.

Besides the city with its towers and walls and the mountains behind, there is a river in the foreground where two little people are sitting in a boat.

Observe every tiny stone in the pavement, and every open page of the books on the shelves.

Here, too, is breadth in the handling.