Three scenes showing the same person, Saint Anthony, are spaced along a path that winds from the lower right corner and around hills and trees into the distance in this vertical painting. In all three scenes, Saint Anthony has pale skin, a long white beard, and a halo framing a fringe of white hair around a balding head. He is barefoot and wears a black monk’s robe, and wears or carries a coral-pink cloak. Closest to us, in front of the mouth of a dark cave, Saint Anthony embraces a light-skinned, bearded man with long, curly blond hair. That man wears cream-white robes and also has a halo.…
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The Meeting of Saint Anthony and Saint Paul

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: 46.5 x 33.4 cm (18 5/16 x 13 1/8 in.) ; overall: 47 x 33.6 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 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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