Saint Anthony Abbot, ca. 1500, Made in Strasbourg, Alsace, present-day France, German, Walnut, 44 1/4 × 17 1/4 × 10 3/4 in., 66 lb. (112.4 × 43.8 × 27.3 cm, 29937g), Sculpture-Wood, Attributed to Nikolaus von Hagenau (German, ca. 1445–died before 1538), The legend of Saint Anthony Abbot, a fourth-century Egyptian hermit, tells of the saint’s heroic resistance to the devil’s torments. Here, he triumphs over the devil, who writhes under his feet. The saint’s staff originally would have impaled the monster’s mouth
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Saint Anthony Abbot, ca, 1500, Strasbourg, Alsace, present-day France, German, Walnut, 44 1/4, 17, 10 3/4, 66 lb, 112.4, 43.8, 27.3 cm, 29937g, Sculpture-Wood, Attributed to Nikolaus von Hagenau, ca., 1445–died before, 1538, legend, Anthony, Abbot, fourth-century Egyptian, hermit, tells, saint, heroic, resistance, devil, torments, triumphs, writhes under, feet, staff, originally, impaled, monster, mouth
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