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Jacob Jordaens
St. Jerome, 1620-30
St. Jerome, who lived in Dalmatia, is one of the four Latin (Western) Fathers of the Catholic Church. A man of great intellect and fiery passion, he spent four years in the Syrian desert as a hermit. While there, he studied Hebrew and struggled to overcome his physical desires. He often appears as a penitent. Here, disheveled and partly naked, he contemplates a skull, a symbol of human mortality. |