Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
Royal TigerMorgan Museum
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
Royal TigerMorgan Museum
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a popular story in art history and has been painted by many artists - from Bosch to Dali.
St. Anthony, or Anthony the Great (ca. 251–356), was a Christian saint from Egypt credited with being one of the founders of monasticism. Anthony lived a life of solitude in an abandoned tomb in the Libyan desert. His ascetic regimen consisted of a single meal a day, constant prayer, reading and manual labor.
According to the story, St. Anthony’s temptations were visited upon him by Satan in the form of sexual seductresses. On one occasion, frustrated with St. Anthony’s resistance to the pleasures of the flesh, the Devil beat Anthony severely and left him for dead. via
Vincent van Gogh, Four Hands, Two Holding Bowls, 1885
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Al Buell
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Marion Benda, 1920s via The New York Public Library
Oscar Wilde, Set of Four via The New York Public Library
he’s been on this blog 100 times already but i doubt anybody is complaining right
