Ancient Painting Saint Jerome Palma 16th Century Oil on Canvas Old Master Italy

Description: Painting Antique Saint Girolamo Palma 16 Century Oil on Canvas Old Master ItalyThe description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.Venetian school of the end of the 16th centuryCircle of Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma il Giovane (Venice 1544 - 1628)Saint Jerome PenitentOil painting on canvas85 x 64 cm., Framed 97 x 76 cm.Full details relating to this painting can be viewed directly at the following - LINKS -This splendid painting, which offers us an intense depiction of San Girolamo Penitente, Doctor of the Church who lived between the 4th and 5th centuries, is a work of remarkable pictorial quality and refinement, testimony of the mature Venetian Renaissance, painted in the Venetian area around the end of the sixteenth century.The multifaceted figure of the Saint, hermit, penitent, cardinal and fine humanist, who translated the Bible into Latin, had great fortune between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a supreme example of the harmony between classical age knowledge and Christian virtue. For this reason it was a subject dear to a refined and cultured public, often illustrated in works of reduced dimensions intended for private devotion.The elderly Saint is depicted half-naked, according to the typical iconography which sees him in the guise of a hermit, while kneeling and beating his chest with a stone as a sign of penance. We see him intent on contemplating the crucifix and the open book, both of his canonical iconographic attributes, references to his fruitful activity as a biblical scholar and theologian, which made him the forerunner of the Renaissance humanist.San Girolamo is represented in a mountainous and wild landscape, near the cave of Bethlehem where he retired to follow his vocation as a hermit, at the end of which there is a view of a city, emblem of the opposition between nature and civilization.Examining its stylistic characteristics, the composition is undoubtedly indebted to the models created by Jacopo Negretti known as Palma il Giovane (Venice 1548-1628), who repeatedly approached the subject with multiple illustrative methods.The luminosity that envelops the scene is clearly of Venetian ancestry: the composition is crossed by an intense glow that radiates the figure of the Saint, emphasizing its rather sober chromatic range, played on earthy tones.The painting, whose excellent condition offers us an optimal reading, denotes a very precise and quality brushstroke.Examination under Wood's lamp does not show significant restorations, but some retouching scattered on the surface.The work is accompanied by an expertise of photographic authenticity in accordance with the law.For further information you are welcome to contact us.Follow us also on:https://www.instagram.com/galleriacastelbarco/?hl=ithttps://www.facebook.com/galleriacastelbarco/The multifaceted figure of the Saint, hermit, penitent, cardinal and fine humanist, who translated the Bible into Latin, had great fortune between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a supreme example of the harmony between classical age knowledge and Christian virtue. For this reason it was a subject dear to a refined and cultured public, often illustrated in works of reduced dimensions intended for private devotion. The elderly Saint is depicted half-naked, according to the typical iconography which sees him in the guise of a hermit, while kneeling and beating his chest with a stone as a sign of penance. We see him intent on contemplating the crucifix and the open book, both of his canonical iconographic attributes, references to his fruitful activity as a biblical scholar and theologThe multifaceted figure of the Saint, hermit, penitent, cardinal and fine humanist, who translated the Bible into Latin, had great fortune between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a supreme example of the harmony between classical age knowledge and Christian virtue. For this reason it was a subject dear to a refined and cultured public, often illustrated in works of reduced dimensions intended for private devotion. The elderly Saint is depicted half-naked, according to the typical iconography which sees him in the guise of a hermit, while kneeling and beating his chest with a stone as a sign of penance. We see him intent on contemplating the crucifix and the open book, both of his canonical iconographic attributes, references to his fruitful activity as a biblical scholar and theologThe multifaceted figure of the Saint, hermit, penitent, cardinal and fine humanist, who translated the Bible into Latin, had great fortune between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a supreme example of the harmony between classical age knowledge and Christian virtue. For this reason it was a subject dear to a refined and cultured public, often illustrated in works of reduced dimensions intended for private devotion. The elderly Saint is depicted half-naked, according to the typical iconography which sees him in the guise of a hermit, while kneeling and beating his chest with a stone as a sign of penance. We see him intent on contemplating the crucifix and the open book, both of his canonical iconographic attributes, references to his fruitful activity as a biblical scholar and theologThe multifaceted figure of the Saint, hermit, penitent, cardinal and fine humanist, who translated the Bible into Latin, had great fortune between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a supreme example of the harmony between classical age knowledge and Christian virtue. For this reason it was a subject dear to a refined and cultured public, often illustrated in works of reduced dimensions intended for private devotion. The elderly Saint is depicted half-naked, according to the typical iconography which sees him in the guise of a hermit, while kneeling and beating his chest with a stone as a sign of penance. We see him intent on contemplating the crucifix and the open book, both of his canonical iconographic attributes, references to his fruitful activity as a biblical scholar and theolog Artista cerchia di Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Giovane Quantità 1

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