Giorgio Vasari, 1548 - The Temptation of Saint Jerome - fine art print

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Best known for his Lives of the Artists, a monumental compendium of biographies, Giorgio Vasari was a successful architect and a prolific painter for the Medici dukes of Florence. As a learned artist, he imparted an allegorical element to this frequently depicted episode from the life of Saint Jerome. The saint—a scholar, translator of the Bible, and advocate of monasticism—vividly described the tempting visions that assailed him when he retreated to the desert to meditate. In this painting, Jerome contemplates a crucifix; his visions are personified as Venus, the goddess of love, accompanied by cupids. Although Venus seems to flee, one of the troublesome cupids still aims his arrow at the saint. The work is unfinished: the black-chalk grid, used as aid in enlarging and transferring the preparatory drawing onto the panel, is still visible through the initial thinly applied paint layers.

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This over 470 year-old artwork with the title "The Temptation of Saint Jerome" was made by Giorgio Vasari in 1548. The artwork had the following size 65 1/2 × 48 in (166,5 × 121,9 cm). Oil on panel was applied by the Italian artist as the medium of the piece of art. Besides, this piece of art is part of the digital art collection of Art Institute Chicago, which is located in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. With courtesy of - Art Institute Chicago (public domain). The creditline of the artpiece is: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Furthermore, alignment is in portrait format with an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Giorgio Vasari was a writer, architect, biographer, painter, art historian from Italy, whose art style can primarily be assigned to Mannerism. The Mannerist artist lived for 63 years, born in the year 1511 in Arezzo, Arezzo province, Tuscany, Italy and passed away in the year 1574 in Florence, Firenze province, Tuscany, Italy.

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