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Source Description
Saint Jerome (ca. 347-420), one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church (along with Saints Augustine, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great), is particularly famous for translating the Bible into Latin, known as the Vulgate Bible. The saint spent four years in the Syrian desert as a hermit, mortifying his flesh and elevating his spirit through study. The subject has given Pinturicchio—one of the foremost painter in Italy during the 15th century and a particular favorite among the popes—the opportunity to depict a monumental, rocky landscape, while the lizard and the scorpion call attention to the desolation of the scene. The open book contains a passage from a letter attributed to Saint Augustine in which Jerome is compared to Saint John the Baptist, another saint who lived in the wilderness.
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Document identity
localId
18980
label
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
18980
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contentType
drawing
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normalized
title
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
description
Saint Jerome (ca. 347-420), one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church (along with Saints Augustine, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great), is particularly famous for translating the Bible into Latin, known as the Vulgate Bible. The saint spent four years in the Syrian desert as a hermit, mortifying his flesh and elevating his spirit through study. The subject has given Pinturicchio—one of the foremost painter in Italy during the 15th century and a particular favorite among the popes—the opportunity to depict a monumental, rocky landscape, while the lizard and the scorpion call attention to the desolation of the scene. The open book contains a passage from a letter attributed to Saint Augustine in which Jerome is compared to Saint John the Baptist, another saint who lived in the wilderness.
provenance
Signora Bartoccini, Perugia [widow of Mr. Gai], by 1901 until 1915 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Luigi Grasse [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1916, by purchase [from Grasse through Bernard Berenson]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1475-1480 (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
149.8
height
106
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 59 x W: 41 3/4 in. (149.8 x 106 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Transcription] Inscribed on the pages of the open book
difficult to read: ERAR QUOD EST SANCTUM ET NEMUS QUASI SANCTUM NEMUS. DE QUO AUGUSTI[NUS] IN EP[ISTU]LA AD CIRILLUM. Q[UOD] I[TAQUE] INTER NATOS MULIERUM NO[N] SURREXE[RIT] MAIO[R] IOHAN[N]E BATISTA........NEFA........CONTRARIUM/[right page] EST ISTUM EI AEQUALEM IN GLORIA. NAM UTERQUE VIRGO
UTERQUE HEREMITA
VESTBUS ET CIBIS ASPERAM VITAM DUCENS
UTERQUE MARTIR
ILLE TAMEN FERRO
ISTE PATIENTIA ADVERSITATUM.
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oil on canvas
creator_ids
15179
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
1968
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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fbb00759c2bfe2e8