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St. Anthony Abbot – Antique Print

St. Anthony Abbot, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
St. Anthony Abbot, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A photograph of an anonymous Mexican painting, this image shows Saint Anthony Abbot, the Egyptian hermit of the third and fourth centuries often called the father of Christian monasticism. Painters in colonial Mexico returned often to his story of solitude and resistance to demonic temptation in the desert, and he is commonly shown with attributes such as a tau-shaped staff, a bell, and a small pig at his side. The accompanying catalog card gives no date, and its attributions are unconfirmed, so the painting's age and maker remain uncertain. Sylvia Weyl's photograph still preserves the composition for those studying religious art in Mexico.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Sylvia Weyl of anonymous Mex. painting. No. 3322. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Saints; Art--Mex.; AHC Cat.; Mex.--Painting; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan918 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140574

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