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Original fileThis circular stained glass roundel depicts Saint Anthony the Great as an elderly, bearded man wearing a dark cap and cloak, clutching a tau-shaped staff in his left hand. He is surrounded by grotesque, chimerical demons: one with horns and wings lunges from above, another with a large, bulbous head sits to his right, and a avian-reptilian hybrid creature grips his robes at the bottom. In the lower left, a kneeling male donor with a prayerful expression wears a fur-lined tunic. A small heraldic shield displaying a rooster is positioned at the base of the composition.
The imagery reflects the late medieval and early modern fascination with the 'Temptation of Saint Anthony', a theme rooted in Athanasius of Alexandria's 'Life of Saint Anthony' which details the anchorite's desert struggles against demonic phantasms.
Mr. anthony sindman pfarrr Cüppel 1532 1533
Translation
Mr. Anthony Sindman, pastor of Cüppel, 1532
Athanasius of Alexandria, 'Life of Saint Anthony'
The text serves as the primary literary source for the hagiography of Saint Anthony and his desert temptations.
Object
stained glass
glass
Renaissance
German
religious
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
2540 × 2632 px
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