1580 (ca.), Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), Saint Jerome -- Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venice)
From the museum label: Jerome contemplates the cross while beating his chest with a stone, meditating on the vagaries of worldly life, symbolized by the hourglass. In this painting, Veronese establishes a connection between the saint and the observer by organizing the composition according to a series of diagonal lines that relate the figure of the holy penitent to the objects around him (cross, books, table, hut), thus emphasizing the scene's atmosphere of absorbed isolation.
1580 (ca.), Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), Saint Jerome -- Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venice)
From the museum label: Jerome contemplates the cross while beating his chest with a stone, meditating on the vagaries of worldly life, symbolized by the hourglass. In this painting, Veronese establishes a connection between the saint and the observer by organizing the composition according to a series of diagonal lines that relate the figure of the holy penitent to the objects around him (cross, books, table, hut), thus emphasizing the scene's atmosphere of absorbed isolation.