Georges de La Tour - The Penitent St Jerome - fine art print

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English: The painting depicts Jerome, Church Father and saint, in the cave where he stayed in order to live an ascetic life and dedicate himself to scholarship and translation of the bible. The painting includes objects such as a hat symbolizing his important position in the church, a book, which testifies to his scholarliness, and a whip signifying his penitence. Through the way in which the artist renders the saint’s skin it becomes an important part of the expression of the painting. Strikingly naturalistic, it makes the saint appear to be of flesh and blood even to a viewer today. Målningen föreställer kyrkofadern och helgonet Hieronymus i grottan där han vistades för att leva i askes och för att ägna sig åt bland annat bibelöversättning. Bland föremålen i bilden berättar hatten om hans höga position inom kyrkan, boken om hans bildning och piskan om hans botgöring. Genom sitt sätt att framställa huden låter konstnären den bli en viktig del av målningens uttryck. Slående naturtroget målad får den helgonet att framträda som av kött och blod ännu för vår tids betraktare.

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The masterpiece was made by the baroque painter Georges de La Tour. The original had the size of Height: 152 cm (59,8 ″); Width: 109 cm (42,9 ″) Framed: Height: 173 cm (68,1 ″); Width: 126 cm (49,6 ″); Depth: 8 cm (3,1 ″). It is part of the art collection of Nationalmuseum Stockholm, which is Sweden's museum of art and design, a Swedish government authority with a mandatet o preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art. The public domain artwork is being included with courtesy of Nationalmuseum Stockholm & Wikimedia Commons.The creditline of the artwork is the following: . Besides, the alignment is portrait and has an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Georges de La Tour was a male painter, whose style was primarily Baroque. The painter was born in 1593 in Vic-sur-Seille, Grand Est, France and died at the age of 60 in 1653 in Luneville, Grand Est, France.

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