St. Jerome in His Study / Albrecht Dürer

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Accession Number
1993/2.1
Title
St. Jerome in His Study
Artist Nationality
German
Artist Life Dates
Nüremberg, 1471-1528
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
Object Creation Date
1514
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
Germany (nation)
Bavaria (state)
Mittelfranken (national district)
Nuremberg (inhabited place)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
Germany (nation)
Creation Place 3
Bavaria (state)
Creation Place 5
Nuremberg (inhabited place)
Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Dimensions
25.2 cm x 19.2 cm (9 15/16 in. x 7 9/16 in.)
Century
16th century
Primary Object Classification
Print
Physical Description
This engraving depicts a comfortable domestic interior. An old bearded man sits poring over a book at table in the back of the room. A lion and dog rest on the floor in the foreground. Various other objects appear around the room, including a skull, books, slippers, a crucifix, and a pair of scissors.
Subject Matter
Saint Jerome (331–420), who made the authoritative Latin translation of the Bible, sits hunched over his desk at the back of a room with pen in hand. Around the room we find evidence of Jerome’s fiery asceticism: the skull on the window ledge, the small crucifix on the corner of the desk, the hourglass on the back wall. But these reminders of transience, death, and transcendental concerns are dispersed among objects rooted in the everyday: a pair of scissors hanging on the back wall, the finely worked legs of the desk, or the pair of shoes sitting under the bench. The napping dog and drowsy lion stretch across the entrance to the room and embody the sense of domestic tranquility that pervades the scene. Jerome, however, remains immersed in his task, oblivious to the comforts surrounding him.
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973 x 1451
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Record
1993/2.1
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"St. Jerome in His Study; Albrecht Dürer." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.1/1993_2.1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.
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