The Dream of Saint Jerome

<p>This painting and its companion, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16183/saint-augustine-s-vision-of-saints-jerome-and-john-the-baptist"><em>Saint Augustine’s Vision</em></a>, depict scenes from the life of Saint Jerome, the scholar credited with translating the Bible from Hebrew into Latin, a more widely known language at the time, so that more people would be able to read it. The first scene shows Jerome’s dream of being punished by a heavenly council for preferring ancient Greek and Roman texts to the Christian Bible. In the second painting, Saint Augustine is composing Jerome’s eulogy when he is interrupted by a vision of the saint accompanied by John the Baptist, who praises Jerome as his equal.</p>