Saint Jerome in Penitence | |
Year: | c.1552 |
Artist: | Titian |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 235 |
Width Metric: | 125 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Museum: | Pinacoteca di Brera |
City: | Milan |
Saint Jerome in Penitence is an oil on canvas 1552 painting by Titian, from c. 1552. It is held in the Pinacoteca di Brera, in Milan.[1] It depicts Saint Jerome while doing penitence in the wilderness. He looks at the crucifix, at the left, while holding a rock on his hand, that he used to mortify himself. At the right bottom it is the tamed lion.