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| Keywords: Bernardino Pinturicchio - Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - Walters 371089.jpg St Jerome ca 347-420 one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church along with Sts Augustine Ambrose and Gregory the Great is particularly famous for translating the Bible into Latin known as the Vulgate Bible The saint spent four years in the Syrian desert as a hermit mortifying his flesh and elevating his spirit through study The subject has given Pinturicchio the opportunity to depict a monumental rocky landscape while the lizard and the scorpion call attention to the desolation of the scene The open book contains a passage from a letter attributed to St Augustine in which Jerome is compared to St John the Baptist another saint who lived in the wilderness Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 108 168-170 between 1475 1480 Renaissance oil and oil gilding on canvas Painted surface cm 149 8 106 accession number 37 1089 18980 Signora Bartoccini Perugia widow of Mr Gai by 1901 until 1915 mode of acquisition unknown Luigi Grasse date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore from Grasse through Bernard Berenson Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1916 Transcription Inscribed on the pages of the open book difficult to read ERAR QUOD EST SANCTUM ET NEMUS QUASI SANCTUM NEMUS DE QUO AUGUSTINUS IN EPISTULA AD CIRILLUM QUOD ITAQUE INTER NATOS MULIERUM NON SURREXERIT MAIOR IOHANNE BATISTA NEFA CONTRARIUM/right page EST ISTUM EI AEQUALEM IN GLORIA NAM UTERQUE VIRGO UTERQUE HEREMITA VESTBUS ET CIBIS ASPERAM VITAM DUCENS UTERQUE MARTIR ILLE TAMEN FERRO ISTE PATIENTIA ADVERSITATUM Pintoricchio Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria Perugia 2008 place of origin Umbria Italy Q3947305 Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Pinturicchio Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings of Saint Jerome | ||||
