The Prodigal Son nursia was painted while Bruegel was

was painted while Bruegel was in Rome and is now lost

and of each of the outer wings

lived in poverty and bore his illness with a profound trust in God

Benedict's original monasteries in Monte Cassino in Northern Italy

The Prodigal Son nursia was painted while Bruegel wasAn engraving of the Prodigal Son, kneeling among swine. The Prodigal Son, who humbly returned to his father, was a personification of the sinner returned to the community of the faithful. Durer has chosen to portray the moment when the Prodigal Son, working as a swineherd, realizes his sins and resolves to make amends: "And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my fathers have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!