The Torment of Saint Anthony - Michelangelo Buonarroti Art Print
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A boy of twelve or thirteen is handed a German print in Florence. He answers with a riot. Michelangelo Buonarroti rebuilt Martin Schongauer’s engraving in tempera and oil on panel, in the orbit of the Ghirlandaio workshop, around 1487. The Torment of Saint Anthony is believed his earliest known painting.
Condivi recorded the errand that made the copy his own, a walk to the fish market to study fins and the color of eyes. That lesson glints along the spined demon at left, its flank plated in pewter-silver scales beneath a vermilion wattle. Tormentors hoist the saint into open sky. Claws knot into his lamp-black habit. A tawny brute raises its cudgel over the bald crown, and a cinnabar fiend with a whiskered cat mouth drags at the hem.
The bestiary started as a Late Gothic copperplate from Colmar, Northern Renaissance line that Tuscan color turned to hide and fin. Under the brawl the young painter added what the engraving lacked: a river valley recalling the Arno, its crags laid in olive umber above verdigris water.
This Italian Renaissance art print suits a room wanting evidence that an Old Master began as a child staring hard at a fishmonger’s slab.
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1. Vertical
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