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DÜRER, Albrecht: St Jerome in his Study

🖼 St Jerome in his Study, 1514
Engraving
259 × 201 cm
Karlsruhe, Germany

Golden light floods a scholar's sanctuary, where Jerome hunches over manuscripts amid books, skulls, and a peacefully sleeping lion. Dürer's intricate engraving masterpiece celebrates humanist learning and spiritual devotion, blending Northern Renaissance detail with Italian perspective to create an iconic meditation on knowledge and faith.

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E. H. Gombrich
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