Lot 26
Unknown author SAINT JEROME

18th century
Oil on canvas
114,5 x 75 cm (h x w)
Unsigned

Starting price

5 000 CZK
| 217 €

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Contemplation of St. Jerome with the attribute of a skull belongs to artistically popular subjects, which Dürer and Caravaggio, for example, devoted themselves to. The skull is a symbol of the impermanence of earthly life and matter, and is also a temple of the mind, which can free itself from the physical.