The Dream of Saint Jerome
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 37.4 × 65.7 cm (14 3/4 × 25 7/8 in.); Framed: 43.5 × 72.1 × 6.1 cm (17 1/8 × 28 3/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- tempera
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
religionpainting15th centurypaintChicago World's FairsarchitecturearchitechtureCentury of Progressreligious figuresplant materialpanel paintingmenpainting (image making)painting techniquesItalianreligious sceneshermitsSaintswood (plant material)Christian subjectsviolencereligiousworld's fairstranslationorganic materialNarrativescholarspanel (wood)european paintingChristianitytempera
About
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.
