Saint Jerome in His Study  1530

[i]Workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, the elder[/i] [br]St. Jerome (ca. 341-420 CE), the greatest Christian scholar of the classics, is revered for his translation of the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into Latin. He completed it in a monastery in Palestine, which the artist has suggested in the view through the window by adding camels to an otherwise Flemish l...