Inspired by: Michelangelo - The Torment of Saint Anthony – 1487-88
Anthony was a religious hermit, who lived for twenty years in solitude on a mountain by the Nile. There he
began his long struggle against the temptations of the devil, which became a legend of Christian history. This painting depicts one of his visionary levitations. He is being attacked by the devil, who is disguised in the form of animals and beasts.
This is the first known painting by Michelangelo, painted when he was thirteen years old. The work is one of only four easel paintings generally regarded as having come from his hand. This may have been a practice painting, since it is a colorized version of an existing engraving by the fifteenth-century German master Martin Schongauer.
The engraving had no background, so Michelangelo added his own. His background is filled with water, even a boat, but St Anthony was a desert dweller. I guess young Michelangelo didn’t do his homework.
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