St. Jerome in His Study
Cecco di Pietro·1370
Historical Context
This St. Jerome in His Study by Cecco di Pietro, a Pisan painter active in the later fourteenth century, dates to around 1370 and is now in the North Carolina Museum of Art. The depiction of Jerome as a scholar at his desk became one of the most enduring iconographic types in Western art. Cecco di Pietro was a significant figure in the Pisan school, working in a style that merged Florentine structural clarity with Sienese decorative refinement.
Technical Analysis
Tempera and gold on panel. The painting shows careful attention to the furnishings of Jerome's study as markers of scholarly devotion, with the saint rendered in the crisp, linear manner characteristic of the late Trecento Pisan school.
