# St Jerome in the Desert \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLINI, Giovanni]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Egg tempera on wood ## Commentary St Jerome in the Desert \(detail\) c. 1450 Egg tempera on wood Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham The background serves as a poetic commentary on the engaging scene in the foreground, in which the ascetic saint sits outside his cave and preaches to his pet lion, while the poor beast complains to him of the huge thorn stuck in his paw. ## Related artworks - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Angel Announcing \(detail\)]() - [Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate]() - [Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece]() - [Blessing Christ]() - [Bust of a Man]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()