A bearded and balding man with deeply tanned skin, dressed only in a strip of robin’s egg-blue fabric around his shoulders and hips, sits reading a book on a rock at the entrance to a craggy cave, in front of a landscape in this vertical…

Saint Jerome Reading

Giovanni Bellini (Italian, 1430–1516)

Date
1505
Medium
oil on linden panel
Size
18½ × 14¾ in (47 × 37.5 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1939.1.217. See the museum’s record
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 0.2 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Saint Jerome Reading: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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