Busts of Saints Jerome and Gregory / Atelier of Jörg Syrlin the Younger
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- Accession Number
- 1958/1.59
- Title
- Busts of Saints Jerome and Gregory
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Medium and Support
- lindenwood with polychromy
- Object Creation Date
- circa1500
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Baden-Württemberg (state)
- Tübingen (national district)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Baden-Württemberg (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Tübingen (national district)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Northern Renaissance
- Dimensions
- 50.4 cm x 49 cm x 20 cm (19 13/16 in. x 19 5/16 in. x 7 7/8 in.)
- Century
- late 15th/early 16th-century
- Primary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Primary Object Type
- carving
- Secondary Object Classification
- Ritual Objects
- Secondary Object Type
- altarpiece
- Physical Description
- This pair of finely carved bust-length figures depicts two men in ecclesiastical garb. On the right appears an older figure who wears elaborate vestments and a papal tiara with a book in his left hand. His deeply lined and wrinkled face conveys a patient wisdom and authority as he stares directly ahead. His more youthful companion, dressed in a simpler collared robe and brimless cap, glances introspectively aside. He grasps an unfurled scroll in his left hand and a diminutive lion stares out from its perch on his left shoulder.
- Subject Matter
- This pair of bust-length figures represents an aged Saint Gregory the Great crowned with a papal tiara and a younger Saint Jerome with a miniature lion, his usual attribute, resting on his shoulder. Due to the fundamental importance of their writings in Catholicism they came to be known as Doctors of the Church, and these two busts probably appeared alongside busts of the other two doctors, Saints Ambrose and Augustine, in the base of an elaborate carved altarpiece.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2908 x 2592
- File Size
- 1008 KB
- Record
- 1958/1.59
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"Busts of Saints Jerome and Gregory; Atelier of Jörg Syrlin the Younger." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1958-sl-1.59/1958_1.59.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.
