Saint Jerome (El Greco)

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Saint Jerome
File:Saint Jerome as Scholar MET DT3103.jpg
Artist El Greco
Year 1609
Dimensions 108 cm × 87 cm (43 in × 34 in)
Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Saint Jerome is a 1609 painting by El Greco, now in the Frick Collection, New York.[1]

The artist frequently returned to this subject and here shows Jerome dressed as a cardinal in a pose reminiscent of his Portrait of Cardinal Tavera and Portrait of Jerónimo de Cevallos, pointing at an open book on a table covered with a green tapestry. The deep folds in the garments point to the influence of Michelangelo and Byzantine icon painting.

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Bibliography (in Spanish)