Het visioen van de H. Hieronymus aan de H. Augustinus en de ontdekking van het meel in een klooster van de H. Benedictus

Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti was a Venetian narrative painter of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century who specialised in the large-format scuola canvases depicting the miracles and legends of patron saints for Venice's charitable confraternities. His crowded narrative panel combining a vision of Saint Jerome appearing to Saint Augustine with a monastery miracle belongs to the tradition of scuola grande commission cycles — vast canvases requiring dozens of figures, elaborate architectural settings, and continuous narrative across a single field — that was the most prestigious painting format in early sixteenth-century Venice.

Mansueti's characteristic approach deploys a wide horizontal canvas with multiple spatial zones: a foreground narrative group in contemporary Venetian dress, a middle-distance architectural complex, and a supernatural vision in the upper register. His figures are competent rather than inspired, but his crowd management and architectural stagecraft serve the narrative function effectively.