Madonna with Writing Child and St. Jerome [SEP] collection
Madonna and Child with St Jerome
The Madonna and Child with St Jerome is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio, painted around 1481 and housed in the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin, Germany.
Description.
The painting shows an infrequent composition, with the Virgin holding the Child who writes on a book, an allusion to his intervention in the Holy Books. On the right is St. Jerome, recognizable by his cardinal dress, leaving a book on the marble throne where the Madonna sits: in this case this is
the works in the Borghese collection. Three paintings by Caravaggio ("Madonna and Child with St. Anne - Dei Palafrenieri", "David with the Head of Goliath", "Saint Jerome Writing") appear and disappear behind the surfaces of large mirrors framed in black Murano glass. The figures are animated to appear as though posing for the painting; breathing, blinking and shifting their weight in front of us. Everyday people caught in the process of being transformed into religious icons, trapped like spectres in an indeterminate space between