Three pale-skinned men wearing long, dark robes stand in and near a dense cluster of vivid, mint-green buildings with arched openings and clay-red colored roofs that nearly fill this vertical painting. Near the lower center of the composition, two bearded men stand in an open doorway looking out at the younger, cleanshaven man who stands barefoot to our right, facing them. At the door, the man in front has a long, white beard, and he holds a red book, or manuscript, in his left hand while holding up his right hand with his first two fingers raised. The man behind him has a red beard and…
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Saint Anthony Leaving His Monastery

painter Master of the Osservanza (Sienese, active late 1420s - early 1440s)

or Possibly painter Sano di Pietro (Sienese, 1405 - 1481)

c. 1430/1435

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 46 x 34 cm (18 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.) ; overall size: 47.2 x 35 cm (18 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.) ; framed: 61.6 x 125.4 x 7.6 cm (24 1/4 x 49 3/8 x 3 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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