At the Courtauld

Peter Campbell: Cranach’s Nudes, 19 July 2007

... of Canon Albrecht of Brandenburg, an anti-Lutheran Catholic dignitary who liked to be shown as St Jerome in his study. Cranach’s winged-serpent monogram on a picture was a trademark and guarantee of quality rather than an indication that the picture was all his own work. Yet different versions are not replicas; each has ...

At the British Museum

Mary Wellesley: ‘Feminine Power’, 22 September 2022

... goats in a landscape overrun by briars. Translating from the Hebrew in the early fifth century, St Jerome chose to replace ‘lilith’ with ‘lamia’, meaning ‘witch’ or ‘sorceress’ in Latin, but also – unhelpfully – a kind of flatfish and a species of owl. Later translators followed his lead, so Lilith is ...

At the Movies

Michael Wood: ‘Moonlight’, 16 February 2017

Moonlight 
directed by Barry Jenkins.
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... have the courage not to. Kevin too is played by three different actors: Jaden Piner, Jharrel Jerome and André Holland. Kevin is now a cook in a diner somewhere in Miami. Chiron is a drug dealer in Atlanta, and has become the mirror of Juan: black headscarf, big old car, toy crown on the dashboard; mean manner, but not ...

At the Movies

Michael Wood: ‘Swing Time’, 4 April 2019

... and George Stevens for Swing Time); and there are the differences among Irving Berlin (Top Hat), Jerome Kern (Swing Time) and George Gershwin (Shall We Dance) as composers. There is some amazing dialogue (in this case by Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano – Allan Scott is credited on all three movies): ‘What are the grounds ...

Out of the closet

Tom Paulin, 29 October 1987

Emily Dickinson 
by Helen McNeil.
Virago, 208 pp., £3.50, April 1986, 0 86068 619 1
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Emily Dickinson: Looking to Canaan 
by John Robinson.
Faber, 191 pp., £3.95, August 1986, 0 571 13943 4
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Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar 
by Christanne Miller.
Harvard, 212 pp., £15.95, July 1987, 0 674 25035 4
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Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story 
by Jerome Loving.
Cambridge, 128 pp., £20, April 1987, 0 521 32781 4
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... of what poetry can know (and write) changes when her work is taken into account’. Unfortunately, Jerome Loving practises a form of traditional close reading; Christanne Miller’s study is more densely researched and much more living and contemporary in its readings of the poems. Miller works from the assumption that ...

Time Lords

Anthony Grafton: In the Catacombs, 31 July 2014

Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs 
by Paul Koudounaris.
Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £18.95, September 2013, 978 0 500 25195 9
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... known that the catacombs were directly connected to the first centuries of Christianity. Saint Jerome had eloquently described the awe and fear they inspired. Prudentius had celebrated the graves of the martyrs in verse that bristled with biblical references and visual symbols drawn from the frescoed walls of the ...

At the National Gallery

Nicola Jennings: Bartolomé Bermejo, 12 September 2019

... Michael was the central panel of a large altarpiece commissioned by Antoni Joan, lord of Tous (50 km from Valencia), and it is him we see praying for forgiveness in the painting. Joan was an influential figure with connections to the Aragonese and Castilian monarchs, the local nobility, and the Borgia popes Calixtus III and Alexander VI (who came from nearby ...

At the Architects’

Alice Spawls: Whirling Automata, 4 July 2019

... This potential ceaselessness can also be uncomfortable. What if we cannot switch them off? In Jerome K. Jerome’s story ‘The Dancing Partner’, the automated dancer created by the toymaker Nicholaus Geibel waltzes his partner to death. The ...

At the Royal Scottish Academy

Nicholas Penny: The Age of Titian, 21 October 2004

... by Charles Ricketts in his neglected monograph of 1910. His keen eye also recognised the figure of Jerome as the work of Titian himself. The exhibition provides the perfect opportunity to verify this.Unlike most other exhibitions of 16th-century Venetian paintings in recent decades this one includes sculpture, drawings and ...

Controversy abating and credulity curbed?

Ronald Syme, 4 September 1980

... Educated Christians had been employing familiar techniques for polemical ends or for edification. Jerome now wrote his Life of Paul, duly equipped with ‘corroborative details’ – among them metal gear in a cave left there by forgers of coins in the days of Antonius and Cleopatra. This Paul is put on show as the ...

At the Royal Academy

Nicholas Penny: The Renaissance Nude, 23 May 2019

... but surely the vulnerable and ageing frame of a penitential hermit, like the wooden sculpture of Jerome included in the exhibition, is naked, whereas Venus Anadyomene by Titian, in an attitude inspired by ancient sculpture but certainly also studied from a living model, is nude. It is a question not only of youth and ...

Diary

Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana: In Guantánamo, 15 December 2011

... We met every afternoon for two weeks in N’Djamena. After the midday prayer, I would pick him up in a taxi at the shop he hoped to turn into a laundry. We ate fish and rice in my hotel room – he would have been recognised outside – and he just talked, beginning at the beginning. I was born in 1986 in Saudi Arabia, in Medina, the Prophet’s city ...

Signor Cock

Roy Porter, 25 June 1987

Intercourse 
by Andrea Dworkin.
Secker, 259 pp., £10.95, June 1987, 0 436 13961 8
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... a delusion requiring drastic demystification. Or maybe desire is real enough, but needs, as St Jerome or St Catherine told us all those centuries ago, to be resisted in the name of a higher asceticism or celibacy. The trouble with this book is that on basic, even banal issues like this, it remains silent. Reading it is ...

On Nicholas Lanier

Alice Spawls, 6 November 2025

... and travel had damaged some of the pictures. He restored them with the assistance of his uncle Jerome, a collector and amateur painter. This was the height of conservation in Britain at the time and it must have been good enough, because the king was delighted. Van Dyck, Rubens and Gentileschi were soon invited to the ...

Dragon-Slayers

Corey Robin: Careerism and Hannah Arendt, 4 January 2007

Why Arendt Matters 
by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.
Yale, 232 pp., £14.99, October 2006, 0 300 12044 3
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Hannah Arendt: The Jewish Writings 
edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman.
Schocken, 640 pp., $35, January 2007, 978 0 8052 4238 6
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 
by Hannah Arendt.
Penguin, 336 pp., £10.99, December 2006, 0 14 303988 1
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... problematic,’ she wrote in a 1940 letter, just one of the fascinating documents gathered by Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman in their splendid collection of Arendt’s Jewish writings, many of which have been translated for the first time. In 1948, she confessed to her complete ‘opposition to present Zionist ...