Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Jerome

Juan de Valdés Leal
St. Jerome
1656-57
Prado

September 30th is the Feast of St. Jerome, patron saint of translators, scholars and librarians. St. Jerome made the first translation of the Bible into Latin around AD 400. From earliest times and into the Middle Ages he was depicted by illuminators and painters  engaged in study, engaged in spiritual penitence, engaged in communion with angels. St. Jerome remained in high favor with Baroque-inspired painters.

Bartolomé Murillo
St. Jerome Reading
c. 1650-52
Prado

Antonio Campi
St. Jerome
c. 1566
Prado

Leonello Spada
St. Jerome
c. 1610
Palazzo Barberini

Antonio de Pereda
St. Jerome
1643
Prado

Diego Polo
Penitent St. Jerome
c. 1630
Prado

Domenichino
An Angel Appears to St. Jerome
c. 1630
Prado

Joachim Patinir
Landscape with St. Jerome
1516-17
Prado

Lorenzo Lotto
Penitent St. Jerome
1546
Prado

Simon Vouet
St. Jerome with Angel
c. 1622-25
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Alonso Cano
Penitent St. Jerome
c. 1660
Prado

Francisco Camilo
St. Jerome with Angels
1651
Prado

I am grateful for the beautiful reproductions made available by Museo del Prado.