The composition sees Jerome sleeping in the wilderness, as the Virgin and Child materialise above him in the night sky. In the foreground, a loincloth-clad John the Baptist gestures towards the ...

Jerome is my favorite saint, and I’m not remotely religious. In art, he is generally depicted as an old man in his study, reading or writing, or in the wilderness, alone with his books and the ...

Leonardo da Vinci, Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness, begun ca. 1483. Oil on wood. Vatican City, Musei Vaticani. Photo copyright Governatorate of the Vatican City State. A magician never ...

The painting at the Met, “Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness,” on loan from the Vatican Museums, is one of those unfinished pictures. It was likely begun around 1483, and you see instantly ...

Anthony van Dyck, “St. Jerome in the Wilderness,” ca. 1617-1621 (photo: Public Domain) Kelly Marcum Blogs September 30, 2023. Is there anything more comforting than a notably flawed saint?

St. Jerome, who translated the Bible into Latin, is said to have had a vision of Judgement Day and often is depicted with angels and a lion, from whose paw he removed a thorn.