Title

Saint Jerome in His Study, c1530. Creator: Pieter Coecke van Aelst.

Caption

Saint Jerome in His Study, c1530. St. Jerome (ca. 341-420 CE), the greatest Christian scholar of the classics, is revered for his translation of the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into Latin. He completed it in a monastery in Palestine, which the artist has suggested in the view through the window by adding camels to an otherwise Flemish landscape. The admonition that Jerome has fixed to the wall, "Cogita Mori" (Think upon death), is made explicit by the skull. His Bible is open to an image of the Last Judgment, while the hourglass and candle, objects commonly found on a desk, are further reminders of the passage of time and the imminence of death.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B16_151

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48,1Mb (2,2Mb) / 16,5in x 11,3in / 4960 x 3392 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe portrait people man interior job man men time historical religious education sitting arts painting monastery country religion leaning window art pointing guy occupation view skull museum Flanders Belgium color Christianity saint Santa Renaissance text location century gesturing hourglass profession inside Bible concept scholar santo mortality seated one person hand gesture lettering hour glass Theology oil Painting Colour Flemish Palestine Indoors judgment day Latin text 16th century sixteenth century history historic Day of Judgement historian Last Judgement leaning on elbow TGN theologian translator St Jerome view through portrait Last Judgment The Last Judgment St Saint Jerome St Hieronymus Saint Hieronymus Saint Jerome Pieter Coecke van Aelst Judgement Day oil on panel Latin Script Aelst Pieter Coecke van Van Aelst Pieter Coecke the Elder Day of Judgment Walters Art Museum Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus Heritage Art oil on panel Coeck 1530s Cogita Mori