Antonello da Messina'sSaint Jerome in His Study: An Iconographic Analysis
Penny Howell Jolly
Antonello may have emulated more than just the style and technique of Flemish art, for in Jerome, he created a complex iconographical program manner Van Eyck. This analysis suggests that Jerome's Epistle 22, advising Eustochium to become penitential recluse, is source imagery. Themes include sinful city paradisiacal wilderness, Wise Foolish Virgins, contemplative life. Further, an explanation offered many references Virgin: like Mary, produced Word physical form was considered cleansing nourishment mankind.
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