Episode 269 - Caravaggio’s St. Jerome (Borghese Gallery)
Rebuilding The Renaissance
English - March 13, 2024 10:30 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 202 ratingsArts History florence italy milan renaissance rome architecture art history painting sculpture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1605, Caravaggio painted an image of St. Jerome for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, and the painting is still located in the Borghese Gallery in Rome, Italy. Caravaggio’s depiction of the Father of the Church is a very quiet and intimate one, where we see a scholar in a sparsely furnished room consumed with the enormous task of translating the Hebrew Bible into Latin.