St. Jerome
- Title
- St. Jerome
- Artist
- C. Napier Hemy
- Lent By
- Arthur Hope, Esq.
- Catalog Number
- 63
- Catalog Page
- 10
- Catalog Description
- St. Jerome, who first made the great Eastern book, the Bible, legible in the West, by translating the Hebrew into Latin, was one of the chief saints of the Latin or Western Church, and was a favourite subject in Christian art. There are eleven pictures of him in the National Gallery alone.The men who help the world by study must "scorn delights and live laborious days."
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