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Renaissance
Lazzaro Bastiani
St Jerome Bringing the Lion to the Convent
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Lazzaro Bastiani
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A fine art reproduction of St Jerome Bringing the Lion to the Convent by Bastiani, painted by hand in oil to preserve the warm tonality and quiet drama of the original Venetian narrative scene.
Description
Description
Venetian painting of the fifteenth century favoured stories the eye could follow at a glance, and this canvas by Lazzaro Bastiani belongs squarely to that tradition. Within a crowded field of altarpieces and devotional narratives, it picks out one anecdote from the life of a saint and gives it room to breathe, letting gesture and expression carry the meaning rather than symbolism alone.
About St Jerome Bringing the Lion to the Convent
The subject is the legend of Saint Jerome leading a lion into a convent, a story monks and laypeople alike would have known well. Bastiani sets the moment as a small drama of reaction: Jerome stands composed at the centre, his manner untroubled, while the resident monks scatter or stare, caught between fear and disbelief at the sight of the animal beside him. The lion itself is rendered with a kind of domestic patience, more companion than beast, which sharpens the contrast between the saint calm authority and the alarm around him.
What holds the picture together is restraint. The tones are warm and even, avoiding theatrical shadow or exaggerated colour, and the figures are arranged with the clarity typical of Venetian narrative painting, where a story had to read clearly from a distance. This is anecdotal religious art at its most direct, made to instruct and to charm in equal measure, and it captures Bastiani at a point in his career when legible storytelling mattered as much as devotional weight.
ByMuseum offers this painting as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, worked by a trained painter directly onto canvas rather than printed by machine. The artist studies the original palette, the warm tonal balance, and the placement of each figure, then rebuilds the scene stroke by stroke, so the brushwork and surface texture stay close to what oil paint actually does on canvas. The result is a fine art reproduction meant to be looked at closely, not just from across a room.
The hand-painted reproduction
Living with this painting rewards patience. The first glance takes in the story, the lion, the startled monks, the steady saint. Later ones start to notice smaller things: the particular tilt of a monk head turned away, the soft modelling of Jerome robe, the quiet confidence in how the animal is placed so near the human figures without disturbing the calm of the scene.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Presented gallery-ready for display
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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