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Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Domenico Campagnolac. 1530

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Domenico Campagnola helped to establish a
specialized collector’s market for landscape
drawings, building upon the legacy of his
father, Giulio Campagnola, and Titian. Like
Titian, Domenico’s works emphasize God’s power as expressed through the natural
world. Hermit Saint Jerome, at lower left,
sits in spiritual contemplation within a
dynamic landscape rendered with Domenico’s
distinctive linear style, complete with rustic
houses, humble tree groves, and grand distant
vistas. Independent drawings (drawings
made as works of art in and of themselves)
were a new category of drawing advanced by
Domenico and others.

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  • Title: Saint Jerome in a Landscape
  • Creator: Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500–1564)
  • Date Created: c. 1530
  • Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 24.5 x 36.5 cm (9 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 31.3 x 43.3 cm (12 5/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
  • Provenance: Sir George Donaldson (d. 1925) (according to Agnew)., (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, England), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.557
  • Medium: pen and brown ink
  • Inscriptions: RECTO OF MOUNT, lower left, in graphite: 61 [6 crossed out, 1 underlined] / 236 [underlined] ; lower center, in graphite: Titian [inscribed in a cartouche] ; lower center, in graphite: 3 ; lower right, in graphite: 8930 [erased] ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible]/q
  • Fun Fact: Domenico Campagnola was one of the first artists in Renaissance Italy to create drawings such as this as ends in themselves rather than as preparatory studies.
  • Department: Drawings
  • Culture: Italy, 16th century
  • Credit Line: The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
  • Collection: DR - Italian
  • Accession Number: 1929.557
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