Landscape with Saint Jerome and Two Lions (c. 1530–35): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Saint Jerome and Two Lions (c. 1530–35) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500–1564).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Domenico Campagnola made woodcuts primarily to mimic his drawings for a growing collector’s market. In this image of Saint Jerome, who retreated to the wilderness as an act of penitence, Campagnola focused not on the saint’s devotion to the cross, nor to the Bible, but rather on his contemplation of nature. Domenico’s portrayal of nature has pastoral elements, such as travelers or shepherds, and emphasizes variety, including a stream, mountain peaks, a cave, clusters of trees, and a playful conflict between two lions.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Saint Jerome and Two Lions
• Date: c. 1530–35
• Creator attribution: Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500–1564)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut
• Dimensions: Image: 28.7 x 41.8 cm (11 5/16 x 16 7/16 in.); Sheet: 28.7 x 41.8 cm (11 5/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1952.271

A detail from the museum

Domenico Campagnola's woodcuts such as this were made with the purpose of imitating his own pen and ink drawings.

Collection credit

Dudley P. Allen Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry Sayles. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.
• Rosand, David, and Michelangelo Muraro. Titian and the Venetian Woodcut: A Loan Exhibition. Washington: The Foundation, 1976.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.