Saint Jerome, the chief inspiration for Christian penitents & for hermits, is represented in the wilderness beating his breast with a stone while contemplating a wooden cross. Cima's paintings are similar in style & technique to those by his fellow Venetian, Giovanni Bellini. An earlier painting of this subject by Bellini is also in the Collection (' Saint Jerome reading in a Landscape'). The carved tabernacle frame, as hung in the gallery, is north Italian, perhaps Venetian, of the second half of the 16th century. The more minute ornament is painted in gold.