Plaque with the Penitent Saint Jerome

ca. 1540 (Renaissance)

6.2 cm 7.7 cm

Citation Source image

St. Jerome (ca. 341-420), one of the Fathers of the Church, did penance in the Syrian desert for having focused on classical studies instead of on Christ. He then returned to civilization to combine these passions in his great translation of the Bible from Hebrew and Greek int...

Artifact

id
id
24822
contentType
contentType
object
stage
stage
normalized
provenance
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
rightsUri
rightsUri
CC0
language
language
en
pageCount
pageCount
1
source
source
import
Source image fields (5)
thumbnailUrl https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.215_Fnt_BW_H65.jpg
largeImageUrl https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.215_Fnt_BW_H65.jpg
iiifBase https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.215_Fnt_BW_H65.jpg
imageCount 1
sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.215