Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

ca. 1530 (Renaissance)

54.2 cm 70.7 cm 1 cm

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Saint Jerome (ca. 340-420 CE), most famous for translating the Bible into Latin, is here shown as a hermit in the wilderness. He is said to have spent four years in the Syrian desert living in a cave while meditating on Christ’s death and resurrection. He holds a crucifix, a r...

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Cardinal d'Andrea [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [according to the 1881 Massarenti catalogue]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 132; 1897 catalogue: no. 127, as Timoteo Viti]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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