Bernardino_Pinturicchio_-_Saint_Jerome_in_the_Wilderness_-_Walters_371089.jpg
Summary
Pinturicchio : Saint Jerome in the Wilderness | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q5591
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Title |
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | religious art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English:
St. Jerome (ca. 347-420), one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church (along with Sts. 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 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 St. Augustine in which Jerome is compared to St. John the Baptist, another saint who lived in the wilderness.
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Depicted people | Jerome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
between 1475 and 1480
date QS:P571,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1475-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1480-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
(
Renaissance
era QS:P2348,Q4692
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Medium | oil (?) and oil gilding on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
Painted surface height: 149.8 cm (58.9 in); width: 106 cm (41.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,149.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,106U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081
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Accession number |
37.1089
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Place of creation | Umbria, Italy (?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
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Exhibition history | Pintoricchio. Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia. 2008. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
References | Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery , Baltimore : Walters Art Gallery, no. 108 , pp. 168−170 OCLC : 2463997 . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Walters Art Museum : Home page Info about artwork | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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