Saint Jerome Reading
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
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About this painting
Jerome put the Bible into Latin. The painter put his own name into it: the label at lower right reads LVDVVICVS VIVARINVS PINXIT, Ludovicus, for a man Venice called Alvise and the Gallery files as Luigi. The saint of translation, signed by a translated painter.
Gianmarco Russo, in the Dizionario Biografico, reads the panel as one of the two fullest statements of what Alvise took from Antonello da Messina: a bath of silvery light that brings out the material of things. Thirty-one centimetres of tempera, about 1476. A man reading, and light that makes him solid enough to pick up.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Saint Jerome Reading', Alvise Vivarini, inscription; re-read 2026-09-01. · National Gallery of Art, artist page, Alvise Vivarini. · Gianmarco Russo, 'Vivarini, Alvise', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 100 (Rome: Treccani, 2020). · Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'St. Jerome'. · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection record, 'Saint Jerome Reading', K538.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,779 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.