Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Penitent Saint Jerome
Alternate Title:
San Girolamo penitente
Image View:
Detail of Jerome in the wilderness with his attribute, the lion; infants in background, Jesus and John the Baptist
Creator:
school of Perugino (Italian painter, ca. 1450-1523)
Location:
repository: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Rome, Lazio, Italy) 1246 (F.N. 727)
Location Note:
Palazzo Barberini, Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13
GPS:
41.903611 12.490278
Date:
ca. 1490-1500 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera paint on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
57.5 cm (height) x 42 cm (width)
Description:
The panel shows Jerome as a penitent hermit in the wilderness, beating his breast with a rock. He is still accompanied by his lion, not only as an attribute, but as an active part of legends about Jerome. Rather than a desert as is usually described, the artist has painted a lush landscape. The infants in the background are John the Baptist and Jesus. There is an almost identical version in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, listed as "follower of" Perugino with the date ca. 1490-1500. (Samuel Kress Collection, 1939.1.280) (Source: National Gallery of Art [website]; http://www.nga.gov/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-PERUG-PB-PSJ-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Penitent Saint Jerome