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"Jerome, clearly a childless cat saint, just trying to get some work done. 🐈"

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  "“Matteo di Giovanni
  Italian, c. 1428-1495
  Saint Jerome in His Study, 1482
  Tempera and oil on panel, Harvard Art Museums
  Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes in memory of his father, William Hathaway Forbes, 1966.3
  “Guilds played an important role in commissioning art in Renaissance Italy. Despite its religious subject, this painting was never intended to be an altarpiece. In September 1482, Siena's Arte dei Notai, or notaries' guild, installed this large painting in a reception room at its headquarters, and in the months that followed, payment was made to other artists for a monumental frame for the painting (no longer extant). Jerome is not shown as a penitent in the desert, as is more common, but as a humanist scholar studying at his desk, mirroring the activity and pose of the notaries at work nearby in the guild office. The saint, credited with translating the Bible into Latin, is seated at the center of his study, which is cluttered with the tools that serve him as a sch"

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