page_title: St. Jerome in His Study (Antonello da Messina)
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: St. Jerome in His Study (Antonello da Messina) / Description
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Detail aus dem Gemälde Der hl. Hieronymus im Gehäuse von Antonello da Messina: Der Löwe unter dem Rundgewölbe.
context_page_description: St. Jerome in His Study is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina, thought to have been completed c. 1475. It is in the collection of the National Gallery, London.
  The picture was painted by Antonello during his Venetian sojourn, and was the property of Antonio Pasqualino.
context_section_description: The small picture portrays St. Jerome working in his studio, a room without walls and ceiling seen from a kind of triumphal arch (probably within some church of Aragonese style). As in several other works by the Messinese painter, the main scene is accompanied by a host of details, that have points of contact with the contemporary Flemish school: books, animals, objects, all painted with a magnificent taste for detail and "optical truth".
  The scene is devised such that the light rays coincide with the perspective axes, centring on the saint's bust and hands. A Mediterranean landscape is hinted at through the windows opening on both sides of the study. Animals include a partridge (Alectoris graeca) and a peacock, in the foreground, both having symbolical meanings, a cat and a lion, typically associated with St Jerome, in the shade on the right.
caption: Detail of one of the windows, showing the lion of St. Jerome
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