- Title:
- Saint Jerome
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- Saint Jerome (about 342--420 AD) was a theologian, writer and hermit, famous for producing what is considered to be the first Latin translation of the Bible, known as the Vulgate. The saint is depicted here with a number of identifying attributes: a crucifix refers to his religious contemplation during a four-year retreat in the desert, the skull to his meditation on the transience of life, the rock an instrument of self-flagellation to ward off sinful thoughts, and the crimson-red cloak an allusion to the widely-held belief that he was ordained as a cardinal.This painting is likely the half-length Saint Jerome that Guido Reni's biographer Carlo Cesare Malvasia recorded as being in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. It has been shown that this picture was acquired by the Barberini family from Carlo Ganotto in 1634, and subsequently appears listed in Barberini inventories from 1644 to 1740.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1831-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1831
- Date - latest:
- 1831
- Acquisition source:
- Revd William Holwell Carr
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- crucifixes
- Associated concept:
- St Jerome
- Associated concept:
- skulls
- Credit line:
- Holwell Carr Bequest, 1831
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 440/625/842/mid_N-0011-00-000031.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 111.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 86.40
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Bolognese)
- Object production date:
- about 1624-5
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1624
- Date - latest:
- 1625
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1600-24
- Date - period:
- 1625-49
- Object production person:
- Guido Reni
- Person's birth date:
- 1575
- Person's death date:
- 1642
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Bologna
- Other number:
- NG11
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EXD-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG11
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03K1-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng111
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Revd William Holwell Carr
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- memento mori
- Style:
- Caravaggist
- Style:
- academic
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 191-2
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 569
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Illustrated Catalogue to the National Gallery: Foreign Schools
- Reference details:
- 14, 16
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery Including, by Special Permission, Notes Collected from the Works of Mr. Ruskin
- Reference details:
- 313, 321-2, 324
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery with Critical Notes
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Half Holidays at the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 20
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Schola italica picturae
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London
- Reference details:
- 1.39
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Bolognese Drawings of the Xvii and Xviii Centuries at Windsor Castle
- Reference details:
- 123
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Revue des musées d'Angleterre
- Reference details:
- 60-1
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art
- Reference details:
- 34, 168, 298, 430
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Felsina pittrice: Vite de' pittori bolognesi
- Reference details:
- 2.9
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 191-2
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Masters
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Guido Reni: A Complete Catalogue of His Works
- Reference details:
- 248
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Guido Reni: L'opera completa
- Reference details:
- 253-4
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Felix Summerly's Hand Book for the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 5
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 89-90
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery, with Biographical Notices of the Painters
- Reference details:
- 93
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Some Recently Cleaned Seicento Paintings at the National Gallery
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Pictures Cleaned and Restored in the Conservation Department of the National Gallery, January 1985 - December 1985
- Reference details:
- 72
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Guido Reni, 1575-1642
- Reference details:
- 98
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Guido Reni und Europa: Ruhm und Nachruhm
- Reference details:
- 151-2
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Notizie de' professori del disegno, cioè dei pittori, scultori ed architetti bolognesi e di forestieri di sua scuola
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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