The Role of the Specifier and Art as a Metaphor
Many of the upcoming posts will feature fine art paintings from past eras as illustrations of Construction Specifications topics.
Today's painting by Domenico Ghirlandaio is a portrait of St.Jerome. Jerome is known as the translator of the Holy Scriptures into the Latin tongue from the original Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic texts. He spent his early years in a cave as a hermit performing the translation alone in the desert, inspired by the Holy Spirit. He is usually portrayed at his writing desk in the garb of a Cardinal in the Church, although in his time, that office did not yet exist.
I envision him as a sort of patron of the Specifiers, our tasks are somewhat similar. Jerome sat at his desk in a cave translating the ideas of the Creator, while a specifier performs a much humbler task, seated in a cubicle, translating the ideas of the Architect.
