1485-1495
Saint Jerome at Prayer
Jheronimus Bosch
Bosch Project
Saint Jerome at Prayer
techniek: Oil on Oak, 80.0 x 60.7 cm
This panel depicts Saint Hieronymus, a church father and Bible translator who was very popular during the Middle Ages and who dedicated himself to prayer and penance in the desert. To make him instantly recognizable, Bosch painted the saint’s usual attributes around him: his red cardinal’s hat and robe, a book, a lion (his companion), and a stone with which he beat himself. The bright, cultivated landscape in the background emphasizes the rugged, depressing environment surrounding Hieronymus. Creeping things emerge and prickly plants grow from the nooks and crannies of the odd rock formation. An owl glares ominously out of a tree stump. In the left foreground lie the remains of a rooster that has apparently been gobbled up by a now happily sleeping fox. Amid this misfortune, Hieronymus fervently clasps a crucifix to his chest. Embracing penitence, he has become spiritually clean. A minuscule background detail (a woman washing her clothes) refers to this. |  |
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Literatuur en bronnenpublicaties
Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Ron Spronk, Luuk Hoogstede, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Hanneke Nap and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman. Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 2016, pp. 110-121.
Luuk Hoogstede, Ron Spronk, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Hanneke Nap and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman. Technical Studies, Brussels 2016, pp. 54-65.
Reindert L. Falkenburg, ‘Diplopia: seeing Hieronymus Bosch’s St. Jerome in the Wilderness double’, In Ut pictura meditatio. The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500–1700, Turnhout 2012, pp. 85–105.
Stefan Fischer, Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works, Cologne 2013, pp. 240-241.
Roger H. Marijnissen and P. Ruyffelaere, Hieronymus Bosch: the Complete Works, Antwerp 1987, pp. 388-393.
Wendy Ruppel, ‘Salvation through imitation: the meaning of Bosch’s St Jerome in the wilderness’, Simiolus, 18 (1988), pp. 4–12.
Pilar Silva Maroto (ed.), Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Madrid 2016, pp. 266-268 (Maximiliaan P.J. Martens).
Larry Silver, Hieronymus Bosch, New York/London 2006, pp. 218-220.
Jeanne van Waadenoijen, De ‘geheimtaal’ van Jheronimus Bosch: een interpretatie van zijn werk, Hilversum 2007, pp. 92-96.
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