The Desert and the Lion
Hermits in the wilderness with skull, book and tamed beast: Jerome, Anthony, Paul the Hermit, Mary of Egypt.
The hermit saints are painted with a landscape rather than a crowd: rock, cave, book, skull, and an animal that has stopped being dangerous. Jerome has the lion whose paw he healed and the red hat of a cardinal he never wore; Anthony has the pig and the demons of his temptation; Mary of Egypt has her own hair for clothing. The subject is solitude, and the wilderness in these pictures is doing as much work as the figure.
The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome
Andrea Mantegna
Saint Mary of Egypt
Angelica Kauffman
Saint Jerome
Bartolomeo Passerotti
Saint Jerome in Meditation
Caravaggio
Saint Jerome Writing
Caravaggio
Enthroned Madonna, Saint Jerome, and St. Sebastian
Carlo Crivelli
Saints Anthony and Lucia
Carlo Crivelli
Saint Catherine of Siena receiving the stigmata between Saints Benedict and Jerome (detail)
Domenico Beccafumi
Saint Jerome
Émile Auguste Hublin
Saint Jerome reading a letter
Georges de la Tour
Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Landscape With The Penitent Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir
Rocky Landscape with Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir
Garland With The Vision Of Saint Anthony Of Padua
Juan van der Hamen
Saint Jerome
Justus van Gent
Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Peter, Clare and Francis
Lorenzo Lotto
Enthroned Madonna with Angels and Saints, St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Augustine on the left, St. Sebastian and St. Anthony the Abbot on the right
Lorenzo Lotto
Enthroned Madonna with Angels and Saints, St. Joseph and St. Bernard on the left, St. John the Baptist and St. Anthony the Abbot on the right
Lorenzo Lotto
Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Nicholas of Tolentino
Lorenzo Lotto
Saint Jerome
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Saint Jerome in his study
Marinus van Reymerswaele
The Torment of Saint Anthony
Michelangelo
Saint Jerome Writing
Nicolas Tournier
Saint Jerome
Nicolas Tournier
Saint Anthony (part of Tapestry in six paintings)
Niko Pirosmani
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Paul Delaroche
A Village Fair (Village festival in Honour of Saint Hubert and Saint Anthony)
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Saint Mary of Egypt
Quentin Matsys
Saint Jerome and the Lion
Rogier van der Weyden