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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 .
Whether or not the dating is accurate, the work is believed to have originated from Caravaggio's late Roman period, [6] which ended with the painter's exile to Malta in 1606. [7] That Saint Jerome Writing is the work of Caravaggio is sometimes brought into question, as it was attributed to Jusepe de Ribera in the Borghese inventories from 1700 ...
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 ...
Caravaggio's innovations inspired Baroque painting, but the latter incorporated the drama of his chiaroscuro without the psychological realism. [dubious – discuss] The style evolved and fashions changed, and Caravaggio fell out of favour. In the 20th century, interest in his work revived, and his importance to the development of Western art ...
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 ...
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)
Christ on the Mount of Olives (1604–1606) was a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), formerly in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum painting gallery, Berlin, but destroyed in 1945.
Also evident is Caravaggio's style in the remarkable handling of light in the Saint Jerome painting. [2] One author suggested Cavarozzi was the painter known as the Master of the Acquavella Still Life , one of the finest still-life painters of early seventeenth-century Rome, but, this attribution is not universally accepted.