The Last Communion of St. Jerome, (painting)

Object Details

artist

Baumgarten, Gustaf

Domenichino (copy after)

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 60

Domenico Zampieri, better known by the diminutive Domenichino, born in Bologna in 1582, and died in Naples in 1611, aged 59. His timidity and slowness, the result of reflection, were set down by his fellow pupils to the account of stupidity, and they gave him the nick name of the Ox; but he soon surpassed them all, and became so excellent a painter that he was said to paint the soul. "He is now universally admitted," says Lanzi, "to have been the best pupil of the Caracci; and Poussin considers him as the first painter after Raphael." It is said, that while he was painting one of the executioners in his famous Martyrdom of St. Andrew, as he was conceiving the character in his own mind, he wrought himself up into a passion. In the midst of his speaking and gesticulating he was surprised by Annibal Caracci, who embraced him and said, "To-day, Domenico, I am your scholar." The painter, like the orator, must feel in himself, what he represents in another. 60. The Last Communion of St. Jerome. A miniature copy from the original in the Vatican, by Gustaf Baumgarten, a Saxon, and one of the most exact copyists of the age. The original is called the best picture in Rome, after Raphael's Transfiguration. (On canvass--length 2 feet 6 inches, breadth 1 foot 7 inches.) [P. 33; exhibited under heading: "School of Bologna."]

Catalogue of the Pictures which formed the collection of Joseph Capece Latro, ancient Archbishop of Taranto, &c. in the Kingdom of Naples now exhibited in the City Dispensary, in White Street, for the benefit of that Charitable Institution. New York, October, 1835.

1876

Control number

AECI 06140057

Type

Paintings

Exhibition Catalogs

Medium

Canvas

Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index

Topic

Religion--Saint--St. Jerome

Ceremony--Religion--Communion

Figure group

Record ID

siris_aeci_109019

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