Saint Jerome of Stridon in the West European pictorial art: Traditions, symbols, meanings

Abstract

For the first time in Russian historiography, the symbolic and allegoric meaning of various forms of appanage accompanying images of Jerome of Stridon in art works of west European artists from the 15th to the 17th centuries is analyzed. We endeavor to trace the appearance and alteration of different pictorial symbols that became distinguishing features of Jerome of Stridon in various works of art.