St. Jerome in His Study (Dürer, 1521)

St. Jerome in His Study

Artist	Albrecht Dürer
Year	1521
Type	Oil on panel
Dimensions	60 cm × 48 cm (24 in × 19 in)
Location	Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

St. Jerome in His Study is an oil on panel painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, completed March 1521. It is in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga of Lisbon, Portugal.

Preparatory drawing.

History

The work was executed by Dürer during his stay in the Netherlands 1520–1521,^[1] using an aged local man as model. A preparatory drawing exists in the Albertina of Vienna with an annotation of the man's age (93).

The artist donated the painting to the head of the Portuguese trade mission in the Netherlands, Rodrigo Fernandez de Almada. It remained in the latter's family collection until 1880, when it was donated to the current museum.

Description

Among Dürer's depiction of St. Jerome, this is the one more resembling a portrait, with little space left for the study and its details (such as in his 1514 etching, where the saint is a small figure in the background).

The subject is portrayed with great care for details,^[1] including the wrinkles to the white-yellowish beard. Also differently from the etching, the memento mori suggestion of the finger above a skull has a greater visual relevance.

Details in the foreground include the inkpot at right and the bookrest at left, as well as a crucifix on the top left.

References

1 2 Costantino Porcu, ed. (2004). Dürer. Milan: Rizzoli.

Sources

Costantino Porcu, ed. (2004). Dürer. Milan: Rizzoli.

External links

Page at the museum official website (Portuguese)

Albrecht Dürer

Paintings	Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents (1490) Portrait of Frederick III of Saxony (1496) St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1496) Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70 (1497) Haller Madonna (c. 1498) Lamentation of Christ (attributed, c. 1498) Portrait of Oswolt Krell (1499) Portrait of Elsbeth Tucker (1499) Seven Sorrows Polyptych (c. 1500) Lamentation of Christ (c. 1500) Adoration of the Magi (1504) Bagnacavallo Madonna (before 1505) Christ among the Doctors (1506) Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman (1505) Feast of the Rosary (1506) Avarice (1507) Adam and Eve (1507) Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1508) Life of the Virgin (1510–1511) The Suicide of Lucretia (1518) Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (1519) Portrait of Jakob Fugger (c. 1520) Portrait of a Man (1521 or 1524) Portrait of Bernhart von Reesen (1521) Saint Jerome in His Study (1521) The Four Apostles (1526) Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher (1526) Portrait of Jakob Muffel (1526) Virgin of the Pear (1526)

Self-portraits	Self-Portrait at the age of 13 (drawing, 1484) Self-Portrait c 1492 (drawing, 1492) Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (1493) Self-Portrait at 26 (1498) Self-Portrait at 28 (1500)

Still life / nature	View of Arco (1495) Three Linden Trees (c. 1494) The House by the Pond (c 1497) Young Hare (1502) Little Piece of Turf (1502) Great Piece of Turf (1503) Wing of a Roller (1512) Rhinoceros (1516)

Woodcuts and engravings	The Child Jesus Holding the Globe (1493) Dürer's Wife Agnes (1494) The Holy Family with the Dragonfly (1495) The Muse Thalia (1495–96) Angel with a Lute (1497) Apocalypse (1498) Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon (1498) The Four Witches (1497) The Sea Monster (1498–1500) Saint Sebastian at the Column (1500) Visitation (1503) Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate (1504) Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) Melencolia I (1514) Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) Triumphal Arch (1515) Head of a Walrus (1514) Large Triumphal Carriage (1522)

Drawings	Madonna of the Animals (c. 1503) Praying Hands (c. 1508) Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63 (1514)

Altarpieces	Dresden Altarpiece (c. 1496–1497/1503–1504) Paumgartner Altarpiece (c. 1500) Jabach Altarpiece (c. 1503–1504) Heller Altarpiece (c. 1508) Adoration of the Trinity (1511)

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