Mountain landscape with St. Jerome, Paul Bril (1592)
Paul Bril went from Antwerp to Rome as a young painter and became the most influential landscape painter of his time. Bril painted this landscape on copper, a ground well suited for fine detail.
On the left, St. Hieronymus can be seen praying and doing penance in solitude. The landscape is a fantasy landscape like Flemish artists painted in the 16th century. The colors run from brown, through green to blue, making the landscape seem to stretch out endlessly
