The Temptation of Saint Jerome
Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1574)
1541–48
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Materials & printing
Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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Why is it this affordable?
A thin, flat margin on every piece — just enough to keep the store running. Most of what you pay is the print itself. We only sell sizes that reproduce at full quality, and we don’t mark up the large sizes the way most shops do.
About this work
Giorgio Vasari is best known as the author of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, a monumental compendium of artist biographies. He was also a successful architect and a prolific painter for the Medici dukes of Florence. Here, he depicted an episode from the life of Saint Jerome, a scholar, translator of the Bible, and advocate of monasticism, an ascetic lifestyle dedicated to spiritual contemplation. While meditating in the desert, he was assailed by tempting visions, here personified as Venus, the Roman goddess of love, accompanied by cupids. The work is unfinished: The black-chalk grid, used as an aid in enlarging and transferring the preparatory drawing onto the panel, is still visible through the thinly applied initial paint layers.
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 166.5 × 121.9 cm (65 1/2 × 48 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 2 exhibitions
Provenance
- Miss M. M. Webber until 1963; sold Sotheby’s, London, July 3, 1963 to Patch for £3800.
- Julius Weitzner, London; purchased by the Art Institute through Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection Fund, 1964.
Exhibitions
- University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Art Gallery, The Age of Vasari, 1970, no. P18.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.
