Art Institute of Chicago
The Dream of Saint Jerome
Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1430–1495)
- Date
- 1476
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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