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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.
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 works evoke three major stages in the life of the apostle Saint Matthew: his calling by Jesus Christ (The Calling of St Matthew), his writing of the Gospel guided by an angel (The Inspiration of Saint Matthew), and his martyrdom (The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew). They are still preserved in the Church of St. Louis of the French.
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 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.