Saint Jerome Reading in a Landscape (Bellini, London)

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Saint Jerome Reading in a Landscape

Artist	Giovanni Bellini
Year	1480–1485 (?)
Medium	oil and tempera on panel
Dimensions	47 cm× 33.7 cm(19 in× 13.3 in)
Location	National Gallery, London
Website	Catalogue entry

Saint Jerome Reading in a Landscape is a painting in oil and tempera on panel by Giovanni Bellini or a follower, probably dating to between 1480 and 1485. One of several versions of the theme by the artist, it is now in the National Gallery, London.

It depicts Saint Jerome in the Syrian desert producing the Vulgate Bible, accompanied by the lion from whose paw he extracted a thorn. In the distance is a walled city.

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List of works
Paintings	Saint Jerome in the Desert (Birmingham) Madonna and Child (Pavia) Transfiguration (Venice) Pietà (Bergamo) Crucifixion Pietà (Milan) Agony in the Garden Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels Presentation at the Temple Christ Blessing (Paris) Frizzoni Madonna Madonna and Child Blessing The Blood of the Redeemer Madonna and Child (Milan, 1460–1465) Greek Madonna Nativity Triptych Saint Vincent Ferrer Altarpiece San Lorenzo Triptych San Sebastiano Triptych Triptych of the Madonna Head of Saint John the Baptist Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Berlin) Dead Christ Supported by Angels (Rimini) The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin and Saint John Lehman Madonna Pesaro Altarpiece Portrait of Georg Fugger Lochis Madonna Madonna and Child (Verona) Enthroned Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child Madonna and Child (Venice, 1475) Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child Saint Francis in Ecstasy Contarini Madonna Resurrection of Christ Portrait of a Humanist Transfiguration of Christ (Naples) Willys Madonna Saint Jerome in the Desert (Florence) Saint Jerome Reading in a Landscape (London) Alzano Madonna Madonna of the Red Cherubim Madonna and Child (New York, late 1480s) San Giobbe Altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Sebastian Madonna of the Small Trees Barbarigo Altarpiece Frari Triptych Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula Portrait of a Young Man in Red Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist Portrait of a Young Man (Paris) Holy Allegory Portrait of a Young Senator Allegories Portrait of a Condottiero Annunciation Christ Blessing (Fort Worth) Circumcision of Christ * Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Florence) Portrait of a Young Man (Washington) Self-Portrait Portrait of a Young Man (Liverpool) Baptism of Christ Head of the Redeemer Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and a Female Saint Martinengo Pietà Portrait of a Young Man (Royal Collection) Saint Jerome in the Desert (Washington) San Zaccaria Altarpiece Madonna del Prato Portrait of the Loredan Family The Infant Bacchus Sacred Conversation (Madrid) Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr Madonna and Child with Four Saints and Donor The Continence of Scipio Madonna and Child (Detroit) Madonna and Child (Rome) Madonna and Child (Milan, 1510) Virgin in Glory with Saints Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse The Feast of the Gods Drunkenness of Noah Naked Young Woman in Front of a Mirror Portrait of Fra Teodoro of Urbino as Saint Dominic Deposition
Other	Martyrdom of Saint Maurice and his Comrades (illuminated manuscript; attributed)
Related	San Zaccaria, Venice (1995 photograph) Venetian Renaissance
Family	Jacopo Bellini (father) Gentile Bellini (brother) Andrea Mantegna (brother-in-law)
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