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Donatello's Feast of Herod (1423–1427), baptismal font, Battistero di San Giovanni (Siena) The Feast of Herod is a bronze relief sculpture created by Donatello circa 1427. It was made for the font of the Siena Baptistery of San Giovanni in Italy. It is one of Donatello's earliest relief sculptures, and his first bronze relief. [1]
Matthias Grünewald, inner right wing of the Isenheim Altarpiece depicting the Temptation of St. Anthony, 1512-1516 (oil on panel). The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature, concerning the supernatural temptation reportedly faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert.
Simone Martini, Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus, 1333. The Sienese school of painting flourished in Siena, Italy, between the 13th and 15th centuries.Its most important artists include Duccio, whose work shows Byzantine influence, his pupil Simone Martini, the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Domenico and Taddeo di Bartolo, Sassetta, and Matteo di Giovanni.
Also present in the church are a St Anthony preaches to Fishes (1697), by Annibale Mazzuoli; a stucco bas-relief or the Virgin offers her baby Jesus to St Antonio, by Giovanni Antonio Mazzuoli (1685); a wooden altarpiece with Scenes in the Life of St Anthony, by Antonio Manetti and Angelo Barbetti (1831-1832); a Madonna and Child, by Francesco ...
The Torment of Saint Anthony [2] (or The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1487–88) is a painting by Michelangelo, who painted this close copy of the famous engraving by Martin Schongauer when he was only 12 or 13 years old. Whether the painting is by Michelangelo is disputed. [3]
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The Temptation of St. Anthony is an engraving, probably created c. 1470–75, by Martin Schongauer of this popular scene in 15th-century art. [1] In it, grotesque demons swarm around Saint Anthony the Great , bursting with movement and energy as the saint calmly resists their temptations or blows.
Partial restoration took place in 1956. The dismantling also led to pieces going astray, either being sold or simply unaccounted for. Extant remains of the altarpiece not at Siena are divided among several other museums in Europe and the United States. The panels in Siena are housed in the Duomo museum adjacent to the Duomo di Siena. The ...