Across three panels the hermit Anthony is carried aloft by demons, collapses after his fall, and finally kneels calm amid a black mass of monsters, false priests and hybrid creatures, with a burning village beyond. Bosch drew on the Life of St Anthony and the Golden Legend, and his inventions were copied for decades. Tree-ring dating places it around 1501.
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At the centre Anthony looks straight out at us and points towards a tiny Christ standing by a crucifix in the dark ruined tower.
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