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Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta)

History, Religious and Mythological Paintings

Saint Jerome Writing is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, made in 1607 or 1608 and housed in the Oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. It can be compared with Caravaggio's earlier version of the same subject, held in the Borghese Gallery in Rome. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Partially Attested
Year Created
1607 1
Wikipedia infobox and lead give a range of 1607 to 1608 for the year of creation; the exact single year is not certain.
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
Connections

Created By

Caravaggio, Artists
Source Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta) (Wikipedia)

In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta) (Wikipedia)

In Genre

Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Malta, located there.
Sources
1. Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta) (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, year field
    c. 1607-1608
  • Infobox, medium field
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, location field
    St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta
  • Genre reference
    Saint Jerome Writing is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, made in 1607 or 1608 and housed in the Oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Saint Jerome Writing is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1607 or 1608, housed in the Oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. It can be compared with Caravaggio's earlier version of
  • Created By: Caravaggio, lead paragraph
    Saint Jerome Writing is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1607 or 1608, housed in the Oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. It can be compared with Caravaggio's earlier version of
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