NUDE Maidens Temptation of St. Anthony - VICTORIAN Era Print


NUDE Maidens Temptation of St. Anthony - VICTORIAN Era Print

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NUDE Maidens Temptation of St. Anthony - VICTORIAN Era Print:
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Genre Print
Temptation of St. Anthony
Another Fine Quality Print from Martin2001
Print Specifics:
  • Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print
  • Year of printing: not indicated in the print - est. 1890s
  • Artist: Quinsac
  • Publisher: Richard Bong, Hanfstaengl, Berlin.
  • Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
  • Dimensions: 10 x 15 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image.
  • Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
  • Reverse side: Blank

Notes:
  • Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.
  • 1 inch = 2,54 cm.

Narrative:
WHY this particular saint should have been chosen for such severetrials of his asceticism, we never could quite clearly makeout. Not only in the legends is he badlytempted, but painters in all ages have plied him with all manner oftemptation, to such an extent, that our special wonder is, how hewithstood it. Were we to be asked to name the two most popular subjectsfor illustration with artists, we would unhesitatingly say: \"Susannahand the Elders,\" and \"The Temptation of St. Antony.\" We givethe authority of the Rev. Alban Butler, as follows, for thehistory of St. Antony. He was born A.D. 356, at Heraclea, inUpper Epypt. \"He was remarkable, from his childhood, for his temperanceand self-control. On the death of his parents, being heir toconsiderable wealth, he bestowed it all upon the poor, and retired to asolitude, in imitation of an old hermit in the neighborhood of Coma,and became a perfect model of humility, Christiancondescension, charity, prayer, and all the virtues.

\"The devil assailed him with manifold temptations,for he had an active imagination, frequently by the temptation ofbeauty, ambition, fear, despair, wine and gold, but be triumphantlywithstood them all. Notwithstanding which, he was very carefulnot to place his ideal perfection in mortification, but in charity, inwhich was his whole study. The illusions of the devil hecontrolled by constant contemplation of Christ on the cross.Bolomdus gives us an account of many miracles wrought by hisintercession, particularly in what manner the distemper called the\'Sacred Fire,\' since that time called \'St. Antony\'sFire,\' miraculously ceased through his patronage, when it ragedviolently in many parts of Europe, in the eleventh century.\"

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NUDE Maidens Temptation of St. Anthony - VICTORIAN Era Print:
$28.00

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