Sixteen men and boys stand around a man lying on a bed, Saint Anthony, in this square painting. A seventeenth mourner kneels on our side of the bed and faces Saint Anthony. Some of the onlookers have their hair cut into rings around their heads, and others’ heads are covered by hoods. They all have pale skin tinged with green, and they wear robes in shades of black, smoky purple, brown, or cream white. A man at the foot of the bed wears a sky-blue robe edged with golden orange down the front as he reads from an open book. Two boys to the left wear white and black and hold tall candles, and a…
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The Death of Saint Anthony

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: 36.2 x 38.1 cm (14 1/4 x 15 in.) ; overall size: 37.5 x 39.4 cm (14 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.) ; framed: 52.1 x 54 x 7.6 cm (20 1/2 x 21 1/4 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
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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