# The Dream of Saint Jerome

- By: Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1430–1495)
- Date: 1476
- Medium: Tempera on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 37.4 × 65.7 cm (14 3/4 × 25 7/8 in.); Framed: 43.5 × 72.1 × 6.1 cm (17 1/8 × 28 3/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16179)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/0ec8d603b3e33d98ead6f94def1bef36.jpg
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This painting and its companion, Saint Augustine’s Vision, 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 interrupted by a vision of the saint accompanied by John the Baptist, who praises Jerome as his equal.

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