Curatorial Notes
This painting and its companion, Saint Augustine’s Vision, depict scenes from the life of Saint Jerome, the scholar credited with translating the Bible from Hebrew into Latin, a more widely known language at the time, so that more people would be able to read it. The first scene shows Jerome’s dream of being punished by a heavenly council for preferring ancient Greek and Roman texts to the Christian Bible. In the second painting, Saint Augustine is composing Jerome’s eulogy when he is interrupted by a vision of the saint accompanied by John the Baptist, who praises Jerome as his equal.
Artwork Identification
Title The Dream of Saint Jerome
Title (PT) O sonho de São Jerônimo
Title (ES) El sueño de San Jerónimo
Artist Matteo di Giovanni
Artist Bio Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, c. 1430–1495)
Date 1476
Work Type Painting
Location & Collection
Institution Art Institute of Chicago
Source View Museum Page
License Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
