Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

ca. 1620-1630 (Baroque)

59.2 cm 61.9 cm 0.9 cm

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The theologian St. Jerome (ca. 340-420) is shown meditating on the cross of Christ during his four years of penitence in the Syrian desert when he was in his 30s. However, his great service to the Church was his translation of the Bible, made when he was much older, when he wa...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 221, as G. A. Razzi, evidently G. A. Bazzi, called il Sodoma]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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