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DÜRER, Albrecht: St Jerome

🖼 St Jerome, 1521
Oil on panel
60 × 48 cm
Lisbon, Portugal

Golden light floods a scholar's study where St. Jerome labors intently, surrounded by symbolic objects rendered with meticulous detail and fine crosshatching. Dürer's engraving epitomizes Northern Renaissance devotion to both spiritual contemplation and naturalistic precision, establishing the saint as patron of learned monasticism.

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