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Description: | St Jerome is shown as a scholar at work in his study. The objects in the painting are chosen to signify the saint's significance as a Christian theologian and to encourage the viewer to meditate on the vanity of worldly things and the inevitability of death, including the guttered candle, and skull. This painting is based on an early sixteenth-century work by Albrecht Durer and is close in composition to copies after Dürer by Joos van Cleve. | Subjects: | interior; religion (St Jerome); allegory (vanitas); still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dürer, Albrecht (German printmaker and painter, 1471-1528) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8334... | Go to resource |
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