Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1430–1495)
The Dream of Saint Jerome
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Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1430–1495)1476
The Dream of Saint Jerome
Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1430–1495) →15th centurytemperapaint
Date
1476
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
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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