Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
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Jerome wrote his own account of these years. Alone in the desert, with scorpions and wild beasts for company, he cried aloud all night and did not stop beating his breast. There is no stone in the letter, and no lion.
Cima gives him both. The stone is in his hand as he looks at the crucifix; the lion lies under the cave mouth; a black snake slides from a crevice at the foot of the cross. The lion is a figment of the Golden Legend, in Megan Hale Williams's word. The breast-beating is the only part Jerome would recognise.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, artist page 'Cima da Conegliano', entry for Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, 1939.1.168; read 2026-09-01. · National Gallery of Art, 'Saint Jerome in the Wilderness', Cima da Conegliano, 1939.1.168 · Jerome, Epistula 22 ad Eustochium, §7, trans. W. H. Fremantle (NPNF II.6), New Advent · Wikipedia, 'Jerome', sections on the lion legend and on art, citing Williams 2006 and Rice 1985 · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection, 'Saint Jerome in the Wilderness', K317 · Google Arts & Culture, 'Saint Jerome in the Wilderness', Cima da Conegliano (NGA record)
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 20,772 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.