# Temptations of St Jerome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VASARI, Giorgio]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on wood, 169 x 123 cm ## Commentary Crowded, muscular, and electric with acid tints, this scene could not be further from classical Renaissance decorum. Yet, Vasari introduced the saint's most conventional attributes from the lion at his feet, to the books representing Jerome's translation of the Bible, to the red standing for his traditional cardinalate. The temptations swirling around him are more familial than carnal. ## Related artworks - [Abraham and the Three Angels]() - [Allegory of the Immaculate Conception]() - [Allegory Related to Alchemy]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling of the Sala del Cinquecento \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()