Demons covered in scales, spines and horns seize Saint Anthony in mid-air and try to drag him down, while the hermit stays calm. The panel copies an engraving by the German printmaker Martin Schongauer. The Kimbell attributes it to Michelangelo at about 12 or 13, which would make it his earliest known painting, though not every scholar accepts this.
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His early biographer Condivi says the boy went to the fish market to study scales. He also added the landscape below, which is not in Schongauer's print.
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