San Girolamo Is An Oil Painting On An Oak Panel Preserved In The Uffizi Gallery In Florence Editorial Image

The saint is in fact represented covered with poor rags while praying to a crucifix which, in a rather original way, is tied to a dry shrub and placed behind the spectator. The typical attributes of Jerome are in the background: in the cave you can see the cardinal`s hat thrown on the ground and the book, further away in the landscape you can see the faithful lion. Filippino concentrated on the painful figure of the saint, rendered with fast and pasty brush strokes which are among the best examples of the anxieties that snaked in Florence at the end of the century, which soon led to a real break with balanced art and serene of the fifteenth century. The sore and hollowed face, the tense hands, the solemn monumentality of the foot resting on the ground