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The Penitent St Jerome
The painting depicts Jerome, Church Father and saint, in the cave where he stayed in order to live an ascetic life and dedicate himself to scholarship and translation of the bible. The painting includes objects such as a hat symbolizing his important position in the church, a book, which testifies to his scholarliness, and a whip signifying his penitence. Through the way in which the artist render…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Provenance
- Gift of the Friends of Nationalmuseum 1917, with contribution by Knut Agathon Wallenberg och A N Versteegh
Identifier
- NM 2026
- 19030
Extent
- Mått 152 x 109 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:14.768Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:46.031Z