Saint Jerome in His Study is a 1514 copper engraving by the German artist Albrecht Durer, showing Saint Jerome seated behind his desk, absorbed in work at a table typical of the Renaissance, with a cross at its corner in an imagined line to a skull on the window ledge contrasting death and resurrection. A lion and a sleeping dog in the foreground draw on the traditional iconography of Jerome's story in the Golden Legend.
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Engraved by Albrecht Durer, 1514.
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Engraving by Albrecht Durer, 1514.
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Durer is a leading Northern Renaissance printmaker.
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1. Saint Jerome in His Study (Durer), Wikipedia
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a copper engraving of 1514 by the German artist Albrecht Dürer.
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Saint Jerome in His Study (German: Der heilige Hieronymus im Gehäus) is a copper engraving
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Saint Jerome in His Study is a 1514 copper engraving by the German artist Albrecht Durer, showing Saint Jerome seated behind his desk, absorbed in work at a table typical of the Renaissance, with a cross at its corner in an imagined line to a skull on the window ledge contrasting death and resurrection.
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