Another version of the central panel is found in MASP in São Paulo, Brazil, while a copy by a follower of Bosch can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and another version in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Anthony was the subject of a number of copies. Like many of Bosch's paintings, The Temptation of St. In fact, the painting was documented as part of the collections in the Royal Palace of Lisbon in the mid-19th century, and in 1911 King Manuel II donated it to its current museum.Īlthough the painting has usually been attributed to the period 1490–1500, dendochronologic analysis has assigned it to around 1501. However, it is now considered more likely that the triptych was that bought by the Portuguese humanist Damião de Góis between 15. The painting hangs in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon.Īccording to some historians, the work could be one of the three Temptations recorded in the inventory of Philip II of Spain sent to the Escorial in 1574. In common with many of Bosch's works, the triptych contains much fantastic imagery. Anthony was a popular subject in Medieval and Renaissance art. The work tells the story of the mental and spiritual torments endured by Saint Anthony the Great (Anthony Abbot), one of the most prominent of the Desert Fathers of Egypt in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries. Anthony is an oil painting on wood panels by the Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch, dating from around 1501.
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