File:Bernardino Pinturicchio - Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - Walters 371089.jpg

Summary

Pinturicchio: Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Bernardino di Betto
Description	painter and illuminator
Date of birth/death	1454 (?)	11 December 1513
Location of birth/death	Perugia	Siena
Work location	Rome, Tuscany, Umbria, Siena
Authority file	: Q5591 VIAF: 49378648 ISNI: 0000000122797186 ULAN: 500023716 LCCN: nr91029265 NLA: 35650203 WorldCat

Title

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

English: St. Jerome (ca. 347-420), one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church (along with Sts. Augustine, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great), is particularly famous for translating the Bible into Latin, known as the Vulgate Bible. The saint spent four years in the Syrian desert as a hermit, mortifying his flesh and elevating his spirit through study. The subject has given Pinturicchio the opportunity to depict a monumental, rocky landscape, while the lizard and the scorpion call attention to the desolation of the scene. The open book contains a passage from a letter attributed to St. Augustine in which Jerome is compared to St. John the Baptist, another saint who lived in the wilderness.

Depicted people

Jerome

Date

between 1475 and 1480 (Renaissance)

Medium

oil (?) and oil gilding on canvas

Dimensions

Painted surface height: 149.8 cm (58.9 in); width: 106 cm (41.7 in)

Collection

Walters Art Museum

	Native name	Walters Art Museum
	Location	Baltimore, United States of America
	Coordinates	39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W
	Established	1934
	Website	thewalters.org
	Authority file	: Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat

Accession number

37.1089

Place of creation

Umbria, Italy (?)

Object history

Signora Bartoccini, Perugia [widow of Mr. Gai], by 1901 until 1915 [mode of acquisition unknown]
Luigi Grasse [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
1916: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
[from Grasse through Bernard Berenson]
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters

Exhibition history

Pintoricchio. Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia. 2008.

Credit line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1916

Inscriptions

[Transcription] Inscribed on the pages of the open book, difficult to read: ERAR QUOD EST SANCTUM ET NEMUS QUASI SANCTUM NEMUS. DE QUO AUGUSTI[NUS] IN EP[ISTU]LA AD CIRILLUM. Q[UOD] I[TAQUE] INTER NATOS MULIERUM NO[N] SURREXE[RIT] MAIO[R] IOHAN[N]E BATISTA........NEFA........CONTRARIUM/[right page] EST ISTUM EI AEQUALEM IN GLORIA. NAM UTERQUE VIRGO, UTERQUE HEREMITA, VESTBUS ET CIBIS ASPERAM VITAM DUCENS, UTERQUE MARTIR, ILLE TAMEN FERRO, ISTE PATIENTIA ADVERSITATUM.

References

Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 108 , pp. 168−170 OCLC: 2463997.

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