Why it matters
Dürer painted Saint Jerome in the Netherlands using a 93-year-old local man as his model, and gave it to the head of the Portuguese trade mission there.
Did you know?
- It was completed in March 1521.
- A preparatory drawing is in the Albertina.
- It was donated to the Lisbon museum in 1880.
Based on the Wikipedia article St. Jerome in His Study (Dürer, 1521) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
