St. Jerome
unknown (Austrian School)
Basic information
- ID
- С-I-281
- Author
- unknown (Austrian School)
- Name
- St. Jerome
- Date of creation
- 18th c.
- Country
- Austria
- Culture
- Modern times
- Technique
- modeling firing
- Material
- terracotta
- Dimensions (height x width x depth, cm)
- 17 x 10 x 15
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture
- Genre
- religious
- Plot
- Saint Jerome
- Provenance
- Collection of Leon Pininski
Information about author
Object description
St. Jerome of Stridon was a presbyter, exegete, translator of the Holy Scriptures, one of the great teachers of the Church, and the creator of the canonical text of the Bible, who spent four years in the desert near the Assyrian city of Antioch. The iconography of the saint is diverse. Most often, he is depicted as a martyr, naked, wearing a thigh bandage, withered and exhausted; sometimes he is seen writing a book. The saint's attributes are a skull, a dove, stones, a clepsydra, a book, a lion or a lion cub, a pen or a stylus with a tablet, a model of a church, a camel (a symbol of endurance in work), a trumpet (an image of the Archangel's trumpet of the Last Judgement). In a terracotta sculpture from the collection of Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, the saint is depicted sitting with his head raised to the trumpet of the Last Judgement, with a book and a lion at his right foot. The dynamic composition and expression of the forms indicate Baroque inspiration.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
