Title of Artwork: “Penitent Jerome”
Artwork by Albrecht Durer
Year Created 1494-1497
Summary of Penitent Jerome
Double-sided oil on panel painting: St. Jerome in the Wilderness was painted around 1496 by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. It now lives in the National Gallery, where both sides are on show.
All About Penitent Jerome
1957 was the year that the work was thought to be by Dürer because it looked like a lion on a drawing from the artist’s second trip to Venice, which is now at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. There are a lot of pictures of St. Mark’s Lion in the city, so it’s very likely that the lion came from them.
Was in Cambridge before being bought by London’s Fitzwilliam Museum, where it had been for a long time.
It was common for artists to use St. Jerome as a subject in their work at the time. Dürer may have been inspired by Giovanni Bellini or other artists who were inspired by Andrea Mantegna when he did this work.
Jerome is shown in his hermitage, with all the symbols that people think of when they think of him. The tamed lion, the hat and the cardinal clothes on the ground (a symbol of rejecting earthly honours), the book (Jerome was a translator of the Vulgate), the stone he used to hit himself, and the crucifix for the prayers are all there.
There are a lot of small birds and a white butterfly in this painting, which is typical of Northern European art. The painting also shows the bark of the trunk and the spears of grass. A painting by Dürer called “Pool in the Wood,” which is now in the British Museum, has a sky that looks a lot like this.
On the back of this painting, there is an interesting picture of what looks like a meteor, comet, or meteorite. He may have been inspired by the pictures of comets in the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, which was written in 1493.
However, those woodcuts are very artistic and not meant to show real comets. Dürer’s image, on the other hand, has the feel of an actual observation, like the blazing star in Melencolia I, which Dürer made in 1514.
if Dürer’s images are actually depictions of real celestial objects, then there are three possible choices for them. Comet of 1491 is the first. According to Dr. Sten Odenwald, it “is said to have come to within 0.0094 AU on 1491 Feb. 20.0 TT.” NASA’s website agrees with Odenwald on the orbit. First, there is the Ensisheim meteorite that came from the sky. In her book, “The meteorite of Ensisheim – 1492 to 1992,” Ursula B. Marvin said this might be true of Melencolia I. This object hit the ground in Alsace on November 7, 1492, and it has been there ever since. Before and after it passed its meridian, the comet of 1493 was mentioned in Sir David Brewster’s The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. He wrote that it was “seen before and after.”
Information Citations
En.wikipedia.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/.
