Sassetta and His Workshop, The Life of St. Anthony

Circa 1340
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The right side of the painting: After his encounter with the hippocentaur, St. Anthony finds and greets St. Paul the Hermit. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

In the left panel the saint distributes his wealth to the poor; in the middle, he leaves the monastery to find St. Paul the Hermit; on the right, he encounters a "hippocentaur" who directs him on his way to St. Paul. The left panel is based on Golden Legend #21; the middle and right panels, on the Legend's life of St. Paul the Hermit, #15.

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The photograph above was taken at the National Gallery by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.