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Trace the round shapes that sunlight throws through the windows onto the wall, then find the skull, the hanging gourd and the hourglass.
Saint Jerome, who translated the Bible into Latin, writes at a slanted desk in a study of Dürer’s own day, while his lion and a small dog doze on the floor. The Met calls this the most straightforward of the three master engravings, a picture of calm in which sunlight from the windows and the light of his halo balance each other. These prints were meant more for collectors than for everyday devotion.
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper · 24.4 × 18.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Northern Renaissance
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- Museum title
- St. Jerome in His Study
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer German, 1471-1528
- Date
- 1514
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.4 × 18.6 cm (9 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1471–1528
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.