Descriptive Analysis Essay

This essay will present a descriptive analysis of Initial E: Saint Jerome in His Study, tempera and gold paint on parchment created about 1470 - 1480 by an unknown 15th-century Italian illuminator. I will furnish a comprehensive description of the painting, discussing the terms of elements and principles of this artwork.

This picture is in describing a reflection in a mirror. Saint Jerome, who is a church father and dressed in red priest outfits, is translating the entire Bible into Latin words. He is solemnly sitting at a writing desk which has the classic, lasting appeal and engraved a symbol of the divine textures. He is absorbedly writing with an unadorned quill pen writing with an unadorned quill pen on his one hand and holding a sharp knife in his other hand so that he could sharpen the pen or erase the letters. Characteristic organic shapes are floating around him. This image is recognizable, and it presented in a realistic manner. We can clearly see there is an old man with gray beard and the writing instruments around him. We can clearly distinguish there is a black ink bottle hanging the top right of the chair and a red hat hanging on the left top of the chair. On the upper part of the chair, we can see there is debris of the candle which is almost burning out and also can see a palette, and they are all painted in detail and realistic. The functional objects surrounding the saint, give viewers compelling and religious feelings. His serious expression and meditative atmosphere thoroughly

arouse people's attention and respect. Interesting wall decorations also suggests that the protagonist optimistic character of integrity.

In creating the artwork, the artist made carefully use the elements of design. Value, pattern, line, and shape play an especially important role overall arrangement in this artwork. The scene is rendered in the obvious contrast red and gold tones. The light value of Jerome's pure red outfits and the gold color background which is on the right of the whole picture plane as opposed to the dark red annular mirror’ s rim and golden brown color wall on the left. The annular red decoration of the rim also has tint red and dark red two different values to show it is stereo. The rounded patterns which are on the background wall have different outlines. The light browns have darker and thicker outlines, but the light blues have very light and thinner outlines that barely can see. The hexagon patterns on the background wall are made up of seven points and also on the front of the writing desk are the same but in different colors and sizes. In the middle of left part dark red decoration, there is a unique connecting point made of several different shapes and colors. It is made of a quiet and noble dark blue square and four tiny light blue globes. All globes on the background seem like the whole sky in the vast universe, and the green