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Saint Jerome in a Landscape

c. 1530

Domenico Campagnola

(Italian, 1500–1564)
Culture
Italy, 16th century
Medium
pen and brown ink
Support
Beige(1) laid paper, laid down on beige(1) laid paper; paper strips mounted to perimeter of secondary support
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1929.557
Catalogue raisonné
Tietze and Tietze 1944, p. 126, no. 452
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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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.

Description

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.
A horizontally oriented pen and brown ink drawing on neutral-toned paper depicts Saint Jerome, a man with light skin, seated in profile facing our right on the lower left. He reads an open book beneath two large trees while a lion rests nearby. Fine cross-hatching forms a receding valley and clustered town. High craggy mountains rise behind, a castle nestled among peaks against the paper's grainy surface.

Saint Jerome in a Landscape

c. 1530

Domenico Campagnola

(Italian, 1500–1564)
Italy, 16th century

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