Laura Freeman Laura Freeman

The art of the hermit

Holed up in her sixth-floor London flat, Laura Freeman finds solace in these paintings of self-isolating holy men

Splendid isolation: ‘St Jerome in His Study’, c.1475, by Antonello da Messina

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