NARRATOR #2 (JANNIE WOLF): This painting in oil on oak from the late fifteenth century was the central panel in an altarpiece devoted to the life and legend of the great theologian St. Augustine. Five episodes are depicted here. In the upper left corner, we see Augustine's ordination by Bishop Valerius. In the lower left, Augustine as a young man preaches from a pulpit while Valerius and St. Monica, Augustine's mother, listen. The central image shows Augustine being installed as bishop of Hippo, in North Africa, where he was born. In the upper right corner is a particularly luminous passage representing the most popular Augustinian legend, where he speaks with a child on the beach—understood to be the Christ Child—who is attempting to pour the entire sea into a small hole in the sand. When Augustine tells the Child that this is impossible, the Child replies that it is no more impossible than it would be to penetrate the mystery of the Trinity, upon which Augustine was then meditating. And in the lower right section, Augustine, dressed in the red robe and hat of the scholar, discusses complex theology with his disciples. In the central image, the painter meticulously records liturgical objects and vestments of the time. Notice especially the censer, a pierced vessel in which incense is burned, the holy-water stoup with a feathered aspergillum, used to sprinkle water, and the navette, or incense container.