Saint Jerome in a Landscape (c. 1530): Art, History and Details

Saint Jerome in a Landscape (c. 1530) 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 helped to establish a specialized collector’s market for landscape drawings, building upon the legacy of his father, Giulio Campagnola, and Titian. Like Titian, Domenico’s works emphasize God’s power as expressed through the natural world. Hermit Saint Jerome, at lower left, sits in spiritual contemplation within a dynamic landscape rendered with Domenico’s distinctive linear style, complete with rustic houses, humble tree groves, and grand distant vistas. Independent drawings (drawings made as works of art in and of themselves) were a new category of drawing advanced by Domenico and others.

Object facts

• Title: Saint Jerome in a Landscape
• Date: c. 1530
• Creator attribution: Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500–1564)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pen and brown ink
• Dimensions: Sheet: 24.5 x 36.5 cm (9 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 31.3 x 43.3 cm (12 5/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - Italian
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1929.557

A detail from the museum

Domenico Campagnola was one of the first artists in Renaissance Italy to create drawings such as this as ends in themselves rather than as preparatory studies.

Collection credit

The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Tietze, Hans, and E. Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York: J.J. Augustin, 1944.
• Francis, Henry Sayles. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.
• Francis, Henry Sayles. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.

View the collection record

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