Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, ca. 1435, Tempera and gold on wood, Overall 18 3/4 x 13 5/8 in. (47.6 x 34.6 cm); painted surface 18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (47 x 33.7 cm), Paintings, Osservanza Master (Italian, Siena, active second quarter 15th century), This panel is part of a cycle of scenes depicting the life of the hermit Saint Anthony Abbot. The painter's penchant for original and descriptive narrative detail appears in the treatment of the desert landscape and its fauna (symbols of the saint's temptations) beneath the luminous sky at dusk
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