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Caravaggio: Saint Jerome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q42207 |
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Title |
Saint Jerome label QS:Les,"San Jerónimo escribiendo"
label QS:Lfr,"Saint Jérôme"
label QS:Leu,"San Jeronimo idazten (Caravaggio, Borghese)"
label QS:Lde,"Hl. Hieronymus"
label QS:Lpt,"São Jerônimo Escrevendo"
label QS:Llv,"Svētais Hieronīms"
label QS:Laf,"Skrywende Sint Jerome"
label QS:Ltr,"Aziz Hieronymus"
label QS:Lja,"書斎の聖ヒエロニムス"
label QS:Lsv,"Den helige Hieronymus"
label QS:Lpl,"Św. Hieronim piszący"
label QS:Lhe,"הירונימוס הקדוש כותב"
label QS:Lnl,"Heilige Hieronymus"
label QS:Lavk,"Sutese Girolamo tumtikye (1) (trutca ke Caravaggio)"
label QS:Larz,"القديس جيروم يكتب"
label QS:Lit,"San Girolamo"
label QS:Len,"Saint Jerome"
label QS:Lar,"القديس جيروم يكتب"
label QS:Lzh,"聖傑洛姆 (卡拉瓦喬)"
label QS:Lth,"นักบุญเจอโรมเขียนหนังสือ" |
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | religious art | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Jerome | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1606 date QS:P571,+1606-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 112 cm (44 in); width: 157 cm (61.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,112U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,157U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q841506 |
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Accession number |
56 (Galleria Borghese) |
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Source/Photographer |
Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/c/caravagg/07/44jerome.html" |
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JPEG file comment | CARAVAGGIO
(b. 1571, Caravaggio, d. 1610, Porto Ercole) 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. Jerome had been baptized by one pope, had been given his task as translator by another and had called St Peter the first bishop of Rome. Among the Latin Fathers of the Church he was a powerful ally against modern heretics, who attacked the cult of the saints, restricted the use of Latin to the learned and viewed the papacy as the whore of Babylon. It was wholly appropriate that this image was bought by Scipione Borghese soon after he was made a cardinal in 1605 by his uncle, the new Pope Paul V. In pre-Reformation days Jerome was shown with a pet lion and a cardinal's hat. Now Catholic reformers wished to pare religious art down to its essentials, and the good-living cardinal, whose ample features were to be sculpted and caricatured by Bernini, acquired a painting that was as austere as it was sombre. The thin old man, whose face is reminiscent of the model who had been Abraham, Matthew and one of the Apostles with Thomas, sits reflecting on a codex of the Bible while his right hand is poised to write. Whereas in the Renaissance, Antonello da Messina and Dürer had made him into a wealthy scholar, Caravaggio reduces Jerome's possessions to a minimum. The text he holds open, a second closed one and a third kept open by a skull are perched on a small table. Harsh lighting emphasizes the sinewy muscles of his tired arms and the parallel between his bony head and the skull - man is born to die, but the Word of God lives forever.
Author: CARAVAGGIO Title: St Jerome Time-line: 1551-1600 School: Italian Form: painting Type: religious |
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