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Saint Augustine's Vision of Saints Jerome and John the Baptist
Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1430–1495)
1476
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- 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.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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 interrupted by a vision of the saint accompanied by John the Baptist, who praises Jerome as his equal.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
