Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Bono da Ferrara created this work around 1440, now in London's National Gallery. While pure landscape painting was rare in the fifteenth century, this work shows the growing interest in natural settings that would eventually lead to landscape as an independent genre. The Early Renaissance period saw significant artistic innovation across Europe, with painters developing new techniques for representing the visible world with unprecedented naturalism and spatial coherence.

The saint is rendered with identifying attributes carefully depicted according to established iconographic conventions, with the figure's pose and expression conveying appropriate devotional character.