148 Antonello da Messina, St Jerome in His Study (?c.1460)

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TitleSaint Jerome in His Study

Creator nameAntonello da Messina

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1475

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on lime

Dimensions18 x 14 1/4 in. (45.7 x 36.2 cm)

LocationNational Gallery, London

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/antonello-da-messina-saint-jerome-in-his-study

Accession numberNG1418

SubjectsSaints in artArchitecture in artBooks and reading in art

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11. Artists’ Display

Francis Ames-Lewis

The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist

Renaissance artists sometimes produced works intended primarily to serve as demonstration pieces. They may have wished to display both their skills in technique and craftsmanship, and their intellectual concerns and abilities. A noteworthy example of this type of work, from the very end of our period, is Parmigianino’s Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (fig. 112). Vasari writes that Parmigianino took this panel, and others, with him to Rome, where Pope Clement VII and his court were …

Author

Francis Ames-Lewis

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.245-270

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00147.013

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13908&redirecttoanchor=8277

Chapter subject tags:Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506Painting, Renaissance--ItalyPiero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492Art patronage--ItalyDürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528Prints, Renaissance--ItalyPollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498

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