The Annunciation


St. Jerome - myth and reality.
Jerome is one of the most popular non-biblical figures in religious art. Unlike characters from the Bible, we have plenty of documentation about his life and character, much of it first hand from Jerome himself. And yet, like the characters in the Bible, a whole mythology grew up about the life of this man, much of it from unreliable if not downright apocryphal sources. This study looks at both the myth and reality of one of Christianity's most fascinating - and curmudgeonly - characters.
Who was he? In the wilderness - temptation and penitence Jerome the scholar Life with the lion Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium	Iconography of St Jerome Visions of St. Jerome St Augustine's vision The death of St Jerome Doctors of the Church Lucas Cranach: Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome
St Jerome in the wilderness Lorenzo Monaco (Private collection)
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