Oil on canvas. Provenance: - Madrid, Adolfo de Arenaza collection; Madrid, private collection. Bibliography: - Angulo Ãñiguez, D. and Pérez Sánchez, AE, History of Spanish painting. Toledo School of the first half of the 17th century, Madrid, Diego Velázquez Institute, CSIC, 1972, p. 334, no. 337, pl. 252. This is a piece of great quality, within the Orrentian production, in which the well-known passage of Saint Jerome listening to the trumpet of the Last Judgment is represented. The saint directs his gaze to heaven contemplating the heavenly vision, embodied in the group of musical angels of the upper register. He appears showing the rigors of penance in the desert, and next to it you can see some of its most characteristic iconographic attributes such as: the stone and the skull, alluding to meditation and penance, the lion that was able to tame by removing a thorn from its leg, and the scrolls that allude to both to his erudition as well as to his work of having translated the Bible into Latin. Within the extensive production of the Murcian painter, Pérez Sánchez underlined the originality of this work since no other copies are known that repeat this composition, in which The painter's passage through Venice is evident, specifically the Bassano workshop. This can be seen in the succinctly executed background landscape that occupies a large part of the composition, the stormy cloudscape in the background, the indulgence in the anatomy of the main figure and in his typically Venetian color palette,