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The painting depicts Saint Jerome, a Doctor of the Church in Roman Catholicism and a popular subject for painting, even for Caravaggio, who produced other paintings of Jerome in Meditation and engaged in writing. In this image, Jerome is reading intently, an outstretched arm resting with quill. It has been suggested that Jerome is depicted in ...
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 Writing: Valletta, St. John's Co-Cathedral: 117 × 157 cm Oil on canvas: 1607: Ecce Homo: Madrid, Museo del Prado: 111 × 86 cm Oil on canvas: 1608: Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page: Paris, Musée du Louvre: 195 × 134 cm Oil on canvas: 1608: Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli: Florence, Pitti Palace: 118.5 × 95.5 cm Oil ...
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.
St. Jerome in His Study (Dürer, 1521), a painting by Albrecht Dürer; Saint Jerome in His Study, a 1526 painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder; Saint Jerome in his Study, a 1541 painting by Marinus van Reymerswaele; Saint Jerome Writing, or Saint Jerome in His Study, a c. 1605–1606 painting by Caravaggio in Rome; Saint Jerome Writing ...
It is sometimes called the Francesco St Jerome, after Palma's patron, Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. According to Carlo Ridolfi 's 17th century biography of Palms, the Duke commissioned the original painting of the composition, which is now lost, although several other Palma paintings of Jerome have survived.
St Jerome c. 1606 Oil on canvas, 112 x 157 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome Just as Protestants wished to translate the Bible into local languages to make the Word of God accessible to ordinary believers, so Catholics were keen to justify the use of the standard Latin version, made by St Jerome in the late fourth century.
Saint Jerome Writing; Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta) Casa Pazzi Madonna; Cervara Altarpiece; Chigi Altarpiece; Saint Jerome in His Study (Colantonio) Coronation of the Virgin (Pollaiuolo) Madonna of St. Jerome (Correggio) Saint Jerome in Meditation (Piero di Cosimo) Crucifixion Between Saints Jerome and Christopher