St. Jerome in His Study / Albrecht Dürer
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.1
- Title
- St. Jerome in His Study
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer
- 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 4
- Mittelfranken (national district)
- Creation Place 5
- Nuremberg (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Beatrice Bishop Berle
- 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
- 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.
- Primary Keywords
- books
- dogs
- engravings
- interior views
- lions
- nuremberg (inhabited place)
- skulls (skeleton components)
- Secondary Keywords
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- animal material
- animal material by form or function
- animals and creatures
- bavaria (state)
- descriptors
- europe (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- germany (nation)
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- mammals
- materials
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 973 x 1451
- File Size
- 138 KB
- Record
- 1993/2.1
- Link to this Item
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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 June 08, 2024.