Ercole de'Roberti
St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Circa 1470, Italian
Tempera on panel
The Getty Center

The unusual feature of this painting is the bell above St. Jerome's head. Conceivably, it could refer to Jerome's regularizing of "the office and ordinal of the church" (i.e., the Divine Office, the sequence of daily prayers said by the clergy), which the Golden Legend says he completed at the request of Pope Damasus I.

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Photographed at the Getty Center by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.