Saint Jerome as Scholar, ca. 1610, Oil on canvas, 42 1/2 x 35 1/16 in. (108 x 89 cm), Paintings, El Greco (Domenikos

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Saint Jerome as Scholar, ca. 1610, Oil on canvas, 42 1/2 x 35 1/16 in. (108 x 89 cm), Paintings, El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1540/41–1614 Toledo), El Greco executed at least five paintings of Saint Jerome. In this version, from the last years of the painter's life, the saint is shown in the red vestments of a cardinal, seated before an open book, an attribute indicating his role as translator of the Bible from Greek into Latin in the fifth century

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