In art, Saint Jerome is often shown with which animal?
Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer) Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer) Saint Jerome in His Study () is an engraving of 1514 by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. Saint Jerome is shown sitting behind his desk, engrossed in work. The table, on the corner of which is a cross, is typical of the Renaissance. An imaginary line from Jerome's head passing through the cross would arrive at the skull on the window ledge, as if contrasting death and the Resurrection. The lion in the foreground is part of the traditional iconography of St. Jerome, and near it is a sleeping dog, an animal found frequently
Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer) widely in certain collections of Aesop's fables such as The Gourd and the Palm-tree. Jerome elected to use Hedera (from the Greek, meaning ivy) over the more common Latin cucurbita from which the related English plant name "cucumber" is derived, perhaps to avoid confusion while making a more perfect analogy to the typology of Christ . In fact Augustine's view had already prevailed by Dürer's time. Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer) Saint Jerome in His Study () is an engraving of 1514 by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. Saint Jerome is shown sitting behind his desk, engrossed in work.