ID: 700000382 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000382	Record Type: Movable Work
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Saint Anthony Abbot (sculpture (visual works); Attributed to Nikolaus von Hagenau (German, ca. 1445–died be...; ca. 1500; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1988.159; )

Note: Made in Strasbourg, Alsace, present-day France. The legend of Saint Anthony Abbot, a fourth-century Egyptian hermit, tells of the saint’s heroic resistance to the devil’s torments. Here, he triumphs over the devil, who writhes under his feet. The saint’s staff originally would have impaled the monster’s mouth. Saint Anthony’s order was founded in Europe in the eleventh century and was dedicated to the care of the sick. The Antonites had two hospitals in the Alsace—at Isenheim and Strasbourg—and this intense, expressive, and psychologically charged figure may have been made for one of them. Carved in the round, it may have been carried in procession and placed on an altar shrine or on a bracket against a column. The exceptional carving of the face, beard, and hair suggests the authorship of Nikolaus von Hagenau, one of the most gifted Upper Rhenish sculptors working about 1500.

Titles:

Saint Anthony Abbot (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1500

Creator Display:

Attributed to Nikolaus von Hagenau (German, ca. 1445–died before 1538) [preferred,VP]

sculptor Hagenauer, Nikolaus (German sculptor, ca. 1445–died before 1538) Qualifier: attributed to [500053757]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1988.159

Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1988

Other: Creation: Strasbourg [7012346] Grand Est (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: walnut

	walnut (wood) [300012476]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

Dimensions: 44 1/4 × 17 1/4 × 10 3/4 in., 66 lb. (112.4 × 43.8 × 27.3 cm, 29.9 kg)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Anthony of Egypt, Saint [901001255]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: [ Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung , Munich (sold 1988)]

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Saint Anthony Abbot	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 21 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 7 March 2018