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...genius not listed in the tourist guides. In Spain last year Eliot visited the monastery of Montserrat. After long discussion with the monks, he was admitted to the cloister, a rare privilege. While his wife waited patiently outside, Eliot studied the monastery's art collection, stood entranced before Caravaggio's Saint Jerome. On his return, TIME got permission to reproduce the picture, flew Photographer Eric Schaal from Switzerland to make the copy for this week's Art story...
...thousands who visit Montserrat, only a handful of men (women are forbidden) is allowed to penetrate the monastery cloister, where a splendid art collection has been formed in the Virgin's honor. Among the hidden masterpieces on the cloister walls, Caravaggio's St. Jerome is perhaps the most compelling...
Before his early death in 1609, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted no fewer than three St. Jeromes. The most renowned version is in Rome's Villa Borghese, but the best-done from the same model-may well be Montserrat's. The Montserrat canvas shows the saint in repose, with only a skull for company, in peaceful contemplation. It has all the power of Caravaggio's drawing, which influenced Rubens. It is a striking example of Caravaggio's favorite color combination-red and black-which has influenced painters from Georges de La Tour to the abstract-expressionist...
There was a Pope on the Pamphili side: Innocent X, whose immortal portrait by Velásquez hangs in the picture gallery. The palace also contains a Claude Lorrain landscape, a Fra Filippo Lippi Annunciation, Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt to see and admire. One of the most interesting pictures is a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo of Admiral Andrea,* the greatest of the Dorias, a buccaneer of a man and a hero of history...
...Like Caravaggio, you valued truth and sincerity over harmony and beauty...