Saint Jerome

Battista di Gerioaround 1414 - 1418

Details

Title: Saint Jerome
Creator Lifespan: documented 1414 - 1418
Creator Nationality: Italian
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Birth Place: Pisa
Date: around 1414 - 1418
Provenance: Alberto Crespi Collection
Physical Dimensions: w20 x h25 cm
Painter: Battista di Gerio
Description: A native of Pisa, this artist is known for his only signed work, a triptych preserved in Pieve di Camaiore (Lucca) and dated to 1418, and his activities were centered around Lucca. There are doubts about the provenance of this panel of St. Jerome, which, according to critics, should be considered, along with a similar painting of St. Augustine in a private collection in Rome, as one of the four gables of the triptych of Camaiore. It is possible that the two panels with saints belonged to a small diptych or a polyptych with half-length saints, which would not be unusual for this period in Lucca. The work is the result of the artist’s personal meditation, though always under the Florentine influence that was dominant throughout the region of Tuscany in the late fourteenth century.
Type: painting
Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
Medium: tempera on wood

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