Saint Jerome, the chief inspiration for Christian penitents and for hermits, is represented in the wilderness beating his breast with a stone while contemplating a wooden cross.
Cima's paintings are similar in style and technique to those by his fellow Venetian, Giovanni Bellini. An earlier painting of this subject by Bellini is also in the Collection ('Saint Jerome reading in a Landscape').
The carved tabernacle frame is north Italian, perhaps Venetian, of the second half of the 16th century. The more minute ornament is painted in gold.
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Imago Pietatis
1490 | Olio e tempera su tavola | 38 x 53 cm.
Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Giacomo e Girolamo
Olio su tavola
Adorazione dei Pastori
1509 | Olio su tavola
Giovanni Battista tra i Santi Marco, Girolamo e Paolo
1493 | Olio su tela
Battesimo di Cristo
1492 | Olio su tavola
Madonna col Bambino
1500 | Olio su tavola | 47 x 60 cm.
Sacra Conversazione
1490 | Olio su tela | 211 x 301 cm.
San Girolamo nel deserto
1505 | Olio su tavola
Sant'Elena
Olio su tavola | 20 x 49 cm.
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