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Saint Jerome Writing, also called Saint Jerome in His Study or simply Saint Jerome, is an oil painting by Italian painter Caravaggio. Generally dated to 1605–06, the painting is located in the Galleria Borghese in Rome .
Saint Jerome Writing is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1607 or 1608, housed in the Oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. It can be compared with Caravaggio's earlier version of the same subject in the Borghese Gallery in Rome .
Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment; Saint Jerome at Prayer (La Tour) The Dead Christ Adored by Saint Jerome and Saint Dorothy; Della Rovere Chapel; Disputation of the Holy Sacrament; Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer) St. Jerome in His Study (Dürer, 1521) St. Jerome in the Wilderness (Dürer)
Saint Jerome Writing, by Caravaggio, 1607, at St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta Jerome was a scholar at a time when being a scholar implied a fluency in Greek. He knew some Hebrew when he started his translation project , but moved to Jerusalem to strengthen his grip on Jewish scripture commentary.
The book Saint Jerome is reading represents knowledge. The books surrounding him refer to his translation of the Bible into Latin. The lion in the shadows to the right of the saint is from a story about Saint Jerome pulling a thorn out of a lion's paw. In gratitude, the lion follows Saint Jerome around for the rest of his life, like a house cat.
Saint Jerome, hermit, Father of the Church, and responsible for the translation of the Bible into Latin, (the Vulgate Bible) was a popular figure in Caravaggio's time, and the artist painted him at least eight times (only three survive). Whether this was from personal choice or at the request of patrons is unknown, but it gave Caravaggio the ...
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The light enters from a window behind the writing desk and from the foreground, in order to illuminate any detail of the scene. Objects on the desk and the shelves include an hourglass , a pounce pot , a ruler , an astrolabe , numerous books and writing instruments, all suitable for the idealized Renaissance man .