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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, 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 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.
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
The work depicts the Crucifixion on a river valley background, whose small details show the influence of Flemish painting.On the left-hand side is the penitent Saint Jerome, with the traditional symbols of the tamed lion, the cardinal's hat on the ground, and a stone used to beat his chest.
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.
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 .