4200 x 2000 px | 35,6 x 16,9 cm | 14 x 6,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1922
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Dieses Bild ist ein gemeinfreies Bild. Dies bedeutet, dass entweder das Urheberrecht dafür abgelaufen ist oder der Inhaber des Bildes auf sein Urheberrecht verzichtet hat. Alamy berechnet Ihnen eine Gebühr für den Zugriff auf die hochauflösende Kopie des Bildes.
The painting is one of the two currently known compositions devoted to the subject of the temptation of St. Anthony, painted by Witkacy (both in the collection of the National Museum in Krakow). In modern European painting, this theme allegorized the ideal of a Christian, a model of holiness, virtue, perseverance, and unwavering faith in divine providence. Its popularity peaked at the times of the Counter-Reformation (16th and 1st half of the 17th century). Witkacy omitted earlier designs, in line with the hagiography of St. Anthony, from which his predecessors drew. There are no monstrous, fantastic creatures tempting the Holy Hermit in his composition, as in the paintings of Grünewald or Bosch. Antony is tempted by women, one of whom took the form of a mermaid. The painting is a compromise between the formalistic doctrine of Witkacy, the theoretician, and the temptation of Witkacy, the painter, to surrender to his imagination and face the painting tradition. Temptations belong to a small group of Witkacy's works on religious themes and, as Tomasz Gryglewicz noted, are, next to the Creation of the World (Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź), the most complete manifestations of his vision of the world. Sviatoslav Lenartowicz
