Exhibition Archive: Leonardo da Vinci's "St. Jerome" the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| Leonardo da Vinci, "St. Jerome" |
The Met Fifth Ave.
Leonardo da Vinci's St. Jerome
15 July, 2019 ~ 6 October, 2019
I just posted another blog about the same artist Leonardo da Vinci's another and the most famous painting at Louvre Museum in Paris. If you would like to read my writing/question/comparison about the Mona Lisa and St. Jerome, please visit my last blog post.
Last week in the morning, I went to see Leonardo da Vinci's "St. Jerome" painting last week at Met 5th Avenue. This single-painting exhibition is excellent for an artist like me who comes to museums intending to see artists' thoughts and mind and skills in the paintings.
It is always good to know where the piece of art is in advance especially when the painting is in a massive museum with an enormous collection of art. The painting, St. Jerome, is on view at Gallery 955, which is located at the ground floor of Met fifth Ave,, just enter the entrance located at the central of its reception area, walk straight to the back of the main stone staircases, when you keep walking the last room is where the painting is.
It is one of my favorite area in the museum, since last year's October they are showing In Praise of Paining, Dutch Masterpieces.
While I was pleased getting so much from this painting, it also surprised me how a painting from the same artist could get dramatically different attention and reputation from and crowd of public.
It was one of the best and quality exhibitions I enjoyed even though the piece presented is just one, and glad that I visited as an artist and as a painter in September, which was the month I visited over 50 museums and galleries. If you would like to check it out it is on view until October 6, 2019.
Although this is a single-painting exhibition, there are thousands of artworks in the museum to see as we know.
This exhibition of St. Jerome is great that there is no line, and there is no time limitation for viewing the work. The room is very dark, that the room has almost no lighting, except the spot lights on painting, maybe for preserving purpose, but there is chair little distant from the painting and you can stay as long as you would like to. There are people constantly go in and out the room but it was not crowded at all to see the full view. We can also get pretty close to the painting and see the detail of the unpainted part of work and also we can notice other details such as different paint thickness, the direction of brush strokes and so on.
Last week in the morning, I went to see Leonardo da Vinci's "St. Jerome" painting last week at Met 5th Avenue. This single-painting exhibition is excellent for an artist like me who comes to museums intending to see artists' thoughts and mind and skills in the paintings.
It is always good to know where the piece of art is in advance especially when the painting is in a massive museum with an enormous collection of art. The painting, St. Jerome, is on view at Gallery 955, which is located at the ground floor of Met fifth Ave,, just enter the entrance located at the central of its reception area, walk straight to the back of the main stone staircases, when you keep walking the last room is where the painting is.
It is one of my favorite area in the museum, since last year's October they are showing In Praise of Paining, Dutch Masterpieces.
While I was pleased getting so much from this painting, it also surprised me how a painting from the same artist could get dramatically different attention and reputation from and crowd of public.
It was one of the best and quality exhibitions I enjoyed even though the piece presented is just one, and glad that I visited as an artist and as a painter in September, which was the month I visited over 50 museums and galleries. If you would like to check it out it is on view until October 6, 2019.
Although this is a single-painting exhibition, there are thousands of artworks in the museum to see as we know.
This exhibition of St. Jerome is great that there is no line, and there is no time limitation for viewing the work. The room is very dark, that the room has almost no lighting, except the spot lights on painting, maybe for preserving purpose, but there is chair little distant from the painting and you can stay as long as you would like to. There are people constantly go in and out the room but it was not crowded at all to see the full view. We can also get pretty close to the painting and see the detail of the unpainted part of work and also we can notice other details such as different paint thickness, the direction of brush strokes and so on.
I found quite a few similarities in these two paintings.
Do you, find any similarities in these two paintings?
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Official Exhibition Overview:
"To commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), The Met presents the artist’s painting Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness (begun around 1483), a special loan from the Vatican Museums. The exquisitely rendered work represents Jerome (A.D. 347–420), a major saint and theologian of the Christian Church. The scene is based on the story of his later life, which he spent as a hermit in the desert, according to the thirteenth-century Golden Legend. The unfinished painting provides viewers with an extraordinary glimpse into Leonardo's creative process, and a close examination of the paint surface reveals the presence of his fingerprints. The display of this monumental masterpiece pays homage to one of the most renowned geniuses of all time." - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"A single-painting show of one of the most rawly emotional images in the Leonardo canon."—New York Times
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