# St Jerome in the Wilderness [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JACOPO del SELLAIO]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 62 x 88 cm ## Commentary St Jerome, his arms outstretched in rapturous adoration of a crucifix, is shown in the centre with his traditional attributes. St Mary of Egypt, another hermit saint, is shown at the right in a cave. At the left, the adolescent St John the Baptist, who spent much of his life in the wilderness, receives the blessing of a similarly youthful Christ, an iconographically unusual episode. This painting is a characteristic mature work by Jacopo del Sellaio. His distinctive, dry tempera technique, his sharp linear modelling and his predilection for light-toned pastel colouring reflects the influence of Botticelli. ## Related artworks - [Cassone]() - [Coronation of Esther by Ahasuerus]() - [Esther before Ahasuerus]() - [Madonna and Child with Infant St John the Baptist and Attending Angel]() - [Nativity]() - [Saint John the Baptist]() - [Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts]() - [St John the Baptist \(detail\)]() - [St John the Baptist]() - [The Banquet of Ahasuerus]() - [The Banquet of Vashti]() - [The Nerli Cassone]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()