Duerer Engraves Saint Jerome in His Study

1514

Albrecht Duerer cut an engraving of Saint Jerome in his Nuremberg study, dust motes catching the light through bottle-glass windows, a sleeping lion at his feet. The quiet scholarly image, paired with Melencolia and The Knight, Death, and the Devil, formed one of the Renaissance's most beloved print trilogies. Together with Melencolia I and Knight, Death and the Devil, these three master engravings represent the summit of Northern Renaissance printmaking.