He was living in Rome when he began "The Vision of Saint Jerome", the painting of which was interrupted when "Charles V's mutinous imperial troops brutally sacked the city". Soldiers broke into ...

From background to foreground, the painting depicts a haloed Virgin Mary, a young Jesus standing between her knees, St. Jerome asleep on the ground, and St. John the Baptist, clad sparsely in ...

Saint Jerome, one of the four great Latin Doctors of the Church (the other three being St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, and St. Gregory the Great), was the pre-eminent scholar and translator of Sacred ...