Titian - Saint Jerome in Penitence 1531
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Saint Jerome in Penitence 1531
80x102cm oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Musée du Louvre, Paris:
Saint Jerome lived as a hermit in the Syrian desert for a number of years, leading an austere life and spending his days - and nights - praying against hunger and thirst. He is shown sitting in the middle of a vast landscape. He has a long white beard and is holding a cross in one hand and a stone in the other to hit himself on the chest in penance. It is dusk and he is meditating on the Passion of Christ as recounted in the books that lay open before him. Right from his earliest works, Lotto developed a very personal artistic voice. In his youth he was influenced by Bellini, and also borrowed from northern European artists such as Dürer and Altdorfer, drawing on their love of detail and their gift for realistic observation of nature.