Charlotte Mullins comments on Saint Jerome in his Study
LBRECHT DÜRER was an acclaimed Northern Renaissance painter, but it was his engravings that brought him international fame during his own lifetime. This is one of three (master engravings) that reveal his great skill with the burin. Such is his ability to render texture and detail, from the lion’s shaggy mane to the wood grain on the rafters, that we would be forgiven for thinking we are looking at a painting and not a print. St Jerome sits at a table on a sunny day, hard at work on his translation of the Bible. In the 4th century, he had established a monastery in Bethlehem following a two-year spiritual retreat in the desert.
