No, but it is a fine topic. If you come across paintings of Jerome as
Cardinal done as flattering portraits of later Cardinals, do let me know.
Jerome paintings are a mine of information about the medieval/Renaissance
scholarly ambience. Also the engravings, like those of Durer, as
frontispieces to Jerome incunabula. I am finding that later Cardinals could
and did use Jerome and his circle as model for themselves, Adam Easton's
interest, for instance, in Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena and
possibly Julian of Norwich, consciously reflecting Jerome's circle with
Paula, Eustochium, Fabiola, Marcella, etc. Pilgrims were visiting the caves
in Bethlehem, of the Nativity, next door, of Jerome, with that knowledge.
Which is still there for modern-day pilgrims. So perhaps one needs to look
at the whole complex of paintings, the scholar Jerome in his study with the
Hebrew, Greek, Latin on the lectern, the penitent St Jerome in the
wilderness beating his breast with a stone, those where he is accompanied by
Holy Paula and Eustochium, as in the National Gallery painting (which used
to be here at San Girolamo, Fiesole), and the Nativity paintings, especially
those influenced by Birgitta's vision in Bethlehem.
At 11.08 02/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Friends: I am looking for literature on the iconography of St Jerome as a
>reading scholar. Would anyone of you be able to help? Many thanks, Rob
>Wegman.
>
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He said not, 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou
shalt not be diseased.' But he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome'.
Julian of Norwich, Showings, Sloane 2499 Manuscript, fol. 49.
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