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Christopher Fitter, Holmes Rolston III, Daniel Joseph Nadenicek, and Allen A. Carlson
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...and “ Jeromes in the Wilderness” turn flanking hinterlands into packed, even eclipsing, panoramas, which in turn yield spiritual allusion in dead tree and tempting fruit, erring sheep or busy vineyard. But what saturated the tour de force depths of Renaissance landscape with a tender sense of the divine was light. As a traditional Christian symbol of the indwelling spiritual principle, and as an irresistible primal affection of humanity, the light that brightened and flowed across field and valley reconciled a potentially secular artistic technique to piety....
Landscape Reference library
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
... and Jeromes in the Wilderness turn flanking hinterlands into packed, even eclipsing, panoramas, which in turn yield spiritual allusion in dead tree and tempting fruit, erring sheep or busy vineyard. But what saturated the tour de force depths of Renaissance landscape with a tender sense of the divine was light. As a traditional Christian symbol of the indwelling spiritual principle, and as an irresistible primal affection of humanity, the light that brightened and flowed across field and valley reconciled a potentially secular artistic technique to piety....
