Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen are two sculptures by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini.
Bernini was paid 2,128 scudi for his work, although he probably received considerable assistance in their creation.
Rudolf Wittkower documents the "intensification of the visionary quality" in the statues, both figures engaged not in the physical world around them, but absorbed in their own spiritual spaces.
[3] Howard Hibbard continues this line of argument, demonstrating how the figures break out of the niches which are supposed to contain them—further evidence of how Jerome and Mary Magdalen are not constrained by the earthly world but responding to something higher.
[4] A preparatory drawing for the Mary Magdalen exists at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts,[5] while there is preparatory sculpture of Jerome's head in the Fogg Art Museum[permanent dead link] of Harvard University.