Art Spotlight: Saint Jerome Writing
And the struggle of mortals with the divine...
Caravaggio’s Saint Jerome Writing (1606) is a masterclass in psychological realism in which spiritual devotion meets the raw physicality of human frailty.
At the heart of the composition is the aged saint, stripped to the waist, surrounded by the bare essentials of his ascetic life: a book, a quill, and the ominous skull. Bathed in Caravaggio’s signature…
