The Temptation of St. Anthony
1506
- Medium
- woodcut
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-215796
The group of demonic figures attacking Saint Anthony was inspired by the Martin Schongauer engraving of the same subject from about 1475, though the extensive landscape is a fine example of Cranach's individual style. The Temptation of Saint Anthony has possible connections to the Chancellor of Wittenberg University, Goswin von Orsoy (1450-1515), who was also the preceptor of the Antonite monastery at nearby Lichtenburg. The group of buildings in the scene may represent this monastery, which was later destroyed; the monastery also owned a chapel in Wittenberg where there was an altarpiece of …
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1945.340
Registry history
- 1506 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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