The children's book of art (1909) (14780032944)

Identifier: childrensbookofa00conw (find matches)
Title: The children's book of art
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Conway, Agnes Ethel Conway, Martin, Sir
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library



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as who made the standard Latin version of the Scriptures. The services in Roman Catholic churches in all countries are held in Latin to this day, and St. Jeromes translation of the Bible, called the Vulgate, is the version still in use. Here you see St. Jerome depicted sitting in his own study, reading to prepare himself for his great undertaking; and what a study it is! You must go to the National Gallery to enjoy all the details, for the original painting is only 18 inches high by 14 inches broad, and the books and writing materials are so tiny that some are inevitably lost in this beautiful photograph. The study is really a part of a monastery assigned to St. Jerome himself, his books, manuscripts, and other such possessions. He has a pot of flowers and a dwarftree, and a towel to dry his hands on, and a beautiful chair at his desk. He has taken off his dusty shoes and left them at the foot of the steps. The painter of this picture must have had in his mind a very happy idea of St. Jerome. Others
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St. Jerome in his Study. From the picture by Antonello da Messina, in the National Gallery. London. THE RENAISSANCE 65 have sometimes painted him as they thought he looked when living in a horrible desert, as he did for four years. But at the time this picture was painted, about the year 1470, St. Jerome in his study was a more usual subject for painters than St. Jerome in the desert. One reason of this was that in Italy, in the latter half of the fifteenth century, St. Jerome was considered the patron saint of scholars, and for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire, scholars were perhaps the most influential people of the day. Of course you all know something about the remarkable revival of learning in the fifteen thcentury, which started in Italy, spread northward, and reached England in the reign of Henry VIII. Before the fifteenth century, Italians seem to have been indifferent to the monuments around them of ancient civilization. Suddenly they were fired with a passion for antiquity. T