About this artwork
This painting and its companion, Saint Augustine’s Vision, depict scenes from the life of Saint Jerome, the scholar credited with translating the Bible from Hebrew into Latin, a more widely known language at the time, so that more people would be able to read it. The first scene shows Jerome’s dream of being punished by a heavenly council for preferring ancient Greek and Roman texts to the Christian Bible. In the second painting, Saint Augustine is composing Jerome’s eulogy when he is interrupted by a vision of the saint accompanied by John the Baptist, who praises Jerome as his equal.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 204
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Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
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Artist
- Matteo di Giovanni
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Title
- The Dream of Saint Jerome
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1476
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Medium
- Tempera on panel
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Dimensions
- 37.4 × 65.7 cm (14 3/4 × 25 7/8 in.); Framed: 43.5 × 72.1 × 6.1 cm (17 1/8 × 28 3/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
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Reference Number
- 1933.1018
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/16179/manifest.json
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