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St. Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment

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Spanish Artist · 1616–1668

Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra was one of the few distinctive Spanish Baroque painters who spent his career outside of the country's cosmopolitan centers of Madrid or Seville. Born in Córdoba, he received his early training with his father and later studied with a painter of religious figures. By 1638 Castillo was described as a master painter. He specialized in religious works in fresco and oil

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Date: about 1645–1650
Medium: Reed pen and brown ink, heightened with white gouache, on light blue-green prepared paper; black chalk and dark brown ink framing lines
Culture: Spanish
Department: Drawings
Institution: Getty Museum

Living in the wilderness as a hermit, Saint Jerome heard trumpets sounding the Last Judgment; looking up, he saw the cross with Christ's body rising in front of him. Here the trumpet appears so tantalizingly close that Jerome reaches up to try to touch it. His attributes, a lion and a book, surround him. Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra built the dynamic composition from lively, quick strokes. Hatching and cross-hatching emphasize the rippling muscles on the saint's arms and back and elaborate the folds of fabric around his waist. They suggest the undergrowth on the left and the lion's fur.

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