Saint Jerome Reading in the Desert

BELLINI, Giovanni St Jerome Reading in the Countryside Oil on wood, 151 x 113 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Colors in this work

Artist: Giovanni Bellini
Date: 1477–1478
Medium: panel; oil paint
Holding institution: Uffizi Gallery
Palette: Sooted Timber · Brown family · #2B1B11 · 17%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #A8784C · 16%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #D9A76E · 13%

Hammered Copper Brown · Brown family · #7B5535 · 10%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #4D311D · 10%

Cerulean Fresco · Blue family · #96B9D3 · 8%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #604129 · 8%

Lampblack · Black family · #160B07 · 6%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #3F1F0B · 4%

Burnt Umber Ground · Brown family · #663614 · 3%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #404034 · 2%

Limestone Dust · Gray family · #D0BFB1 · 1%

Lapis Dust · Blue family · #3E638B · 1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #34344F · <1%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #3F4B43 · <1%

Bitumen Shadow · Black family · #2D2122 · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #A7BEBE · <1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #994B1C · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Uffizi Gallery

11 tags

Saints Both · 99%

The title identifies Saint Jerome, and the image shows a solitary bearded male figure engaged in devotional reading in a rocky retreat.
Deities and Holy Figures Both · 97%

The central figure is presented in a devotional setting with an open book and a cross-topped staff, supporting identification as a holy figure.
Animals Visual · 99%

A lion is clearly visible beside the seated figure in the lower-right portion of the rocky shelter.
Landscapes and Waterscapes Visual · 99%

Water, bridges, vegetation, hills, rocky terrain, and a distant settlement occupy much of the composition beyond the foreground figure.

Renaissance Art Interpretive · 88%

The fifteenth-century devotional panel and its naturalistic integration of figure and landscape support a Renaissance art context, although the supplied catalog does not provide a formal style classification.

Highly Detailed Visual · 95%

The image contains carefully rendered rocks, foliage, architecture, water, animal forms, and figure details across the scene.
Earth Tones Visual · 94%

Warm ochres, browns, muted greens, and pale stone tones dominate the foreground and middle distance, contrasted with blue sky and water.

Oil on Panel Metadata · 99%

The catalog lists the medium as panel with oil paint.
Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

The catalog identifies the work as a painting executed with oil paint.
Long Distance and Deep Distance Visual · 94%

The composition creates substantial recession from the foreground shelter through the middle-ground settlement toward distant hills and sky.

15th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to 1477–1478, placing it in the fifteenth century.

Giovanni Bellini. Own work

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