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Saint Jerome
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Master of the Getty EpistlesFrench Illuminator · 1520–1549
All works by this person →In the 1520s and 1530s, a large group of anonymous, French illuminators practiced their craft together in a workshop located in either Tours or Paris. Scholars have named one of the workshop's four leading artists the Master of the Getty Epistles, after a manuscript of the Epistles of Saint Paul in the J. Paul Getty Museum. After his association with this group of artists, who shared drawings that
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- about 1528–1530
- Medium
- Tempera colors and gold paint
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Manuscripts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Having retired to the Syrian desert for four years in order to do penance, Saint Jerome kneels before a crucifix, his body covered with self-inflicted wounds. In his hand he holds the stone with which he has been striking his chest. The anonymous illuminator of the miniature, the Master of the Getty Epistles, silhouetted Jerome's half-naked body against an area of dark green, isolating him from the distant countryside and reinforcing his self-imposed exile from civilization. Jerome's red cardinal's robe and hat hang from the broken branch of a tree. A lion, whom the saint befriended by removing a thorn from its paw, lies in the foreground smiling at the viewer. The miniature introduces a preface, once thought to have been written by Jerome, to Saint Paul's Epistles.
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