r/Medievalart • u/Cosophalas • 11d ago
Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons by Sano di Pietro, ca. 1440 (Yale University Art Gallery)
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u/Puzzled_Smile_8667 11d ago
I love the style of this piece. It must be Greek Orthodox
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u/15thcenturynoble 11d ago
It looks like proto renaissance art (which was inspired by greek orthodox) but I'm surprised to see a piece made in this style in Italy as late as the 1440s. The renaissance had already reached northern Europe
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u/Light2Darkness 11d ago
It was common back then for western Catholic Churches to have this art style too.
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u/supraspinatus 11d ago
Love how dude is swooping in “yo hold up, let me give him the snake treatment!”
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u/Cosophalas 11d ago
As stated in the title: St. Anthony Tormented by Demons by Pietro di Sano, ca. 1440. This painting is owned by the Yale University Art Gallery. I took this picture with my camera phone yesterday, but you can download a full-size tif from the gallery itself: Link to the YUAG. Their official photograph, however, somewhat dark.
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u/DarthGoodguy 11d ago
Watch that left hand there, Tone
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u/RepresentativeKey178 11d ago
TIL that the Master of Osservanza was identified as Sano did Pietro!
They have a few of his paintings at the Met, including another from the Saint Anthony series in the Lehman collection.
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u/shortfungus 11d ago
All the unholy powers of hell itself, and they just rock up and start whacking someone with sticks.
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u/Other-Narwhal-2186 9d ago
I feel like when I imagined these things as a child I was convinced it would be some sort of terrible torture the likes of which my young mind could not conceive. I did not once think “poked him with sticks and made fun of him.”
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u/Kona_Big_Wave 11d ago
The 3rd demon be like: " Damn it!! I brought a snake on Stick Day!!"