Saint Augustine's Vision of Saints Jerome and John the Baptist
Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
37.6 × 66.1 cm (14 3/4 × 26 in.); Framed: 43.2 × 71.8 × 5.4 cm (17 × 28 1/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
Classification
tempera
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16183
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This painting and its companion, The Dream of Saint Jerome, depict scenes from the life of Saint Jerome, the scholar credited with translating the Bible from Hebrew into Latin, a more widely known language at the time, so that more people would be able to read it. The first scene shows Jerome’s dream of being punished by a heavenly council for preferring ancient Greek and Roman texts to the Christian Bible. In the second painting, Saint Augustine is composing Jerome’s eulogy when he is interrupt...