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"S. Anthony the Great and S. Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child". Pair of carved, gilded, estof
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“Saint Anthony the Great and Saint Anthony of Padua”. Pair of carved, gilded, estofado and polychromed wooden reliefs. Anonymous Castilian Romanist. Circa 1600.
Measurements "Anthony the Great": 123 x 46 x 15 cm. Measurements "Anthony of Padua": 120 x 43 x 14 cm.
As occurs on numerous occasions with the Saint Johns – Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist - they also often appear together on altarpieces due to their common name. For the same reason, Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Anthony the great, who have little to do with each other beyond their condition as monks, are also often portrayed together. These two panels, presided over by the aforementioned saints, and topped by landscapes in a horizontal format with rounded ends, undoubtedly belonged to a disassembled altarpiece and these could well have been from the between-section.
The two sculptures, made in a high-relief that is almost freestanding, have a marked Romanist style, in which the distant influences of Juan de Juni (1506-1577), mainly present in the Valladolid area, and Juan de Montejo ( h.1540-1601), a sculptor who worked mainly for the dioceses of Zamora and Salamanca, seem to be combined. Indeed, this Romanist component is perceptible in the way the powerful anatomies are conceived, the severe gestures of their faces, the profuse and tangled beard of Saint Anthony the great, or the folds in his garments, although the latter seem somewhat more advanced. For all these reasons, and because of the pictorial decorations, it is possible to date these pieces to around the year 1600 and deduce that they were made by a leading Castilian workshop, perhaps from Salamanca or Zamora, although this cannot be confirmed with certainty.
Both saints have been depicted by the anonymous sculptor according to their best-known iconographies, and with their most typical attributes. Saint Anthony the Great (251-356) was a Christian monk, hermit and father of monasticism. Legend has it that he experienced a series of diabolical temptations in the desert. The saint is represented as an old man with a long beard who wears a brownish sackcloth habit with a hood, a common garment for the monks of his order (the Antonites). This hospital order, founded in the 11th century, had the function of healing diseases: Saint Anthony’s fire, the plague and syphilis. Due to the large number of establishments opened by this order, the cult of its "founder" spread rapidly during the Middle Ages. Saint Anthony is a standing figure, with his left leg slightly forward. He wears sackcloth, with a belt from which hangs a rosary, and a large hooded cape of the same colour. In his left hand he carries an open book, which he reads attentively, while in the other hand he holds an element of which only the handle remains –it would certainly have been a cane with the tau (the tau or potentized cross was the symbol of the afterlife in ancient Egypt, the saint's homeland)–. From this cane, which he used as a staff, a small bell would have hung, an attribute of the hermits, which he would use to repel the attacks of demons, who fled in fear when they heard the sound. The book, from which the flames of the fire of Saint Anthony sometimes emerge, would have been the Rule of the Antonites. The pig is at the feet of the saint, which are, of course, barefoot. The pig is his most characteristic iconographic element, in addition to being his inseparable companion, and rubs against him as a symbol of brotherhood.
Saint Anthony of Padua was born as Fernando de Bulhões, and was the second most important personality of the Franciscan Order, as well as an outstanding theologian and preacher. The figure is standing, dressed in the Franciscan habit, with a wide neck and cuffs, cinched at the waist by the characteristic chord of the Order. As with other saints, the physiognomy with which he is represented has nothing to do with his real-life face. In his left hand he holds a book on which rests a Christ Child –his most common iconography- that alludes to the appearance of the Madonna and Child to the saint in his room. In it the Mother offers him to her beloved Son. Apparently, this vision is a transposition of the Apparition of Christ Seraphim to Saint Francis of Assisi. The Child, with a muscular anatomy, unstable posture and powerful curly hair with a tuft at the front, holds the orb in his left hand while giving blessing with his right. In the saint's right hand, which is elevated, he could well have displayed a bouquet of lilies, a symbol of purity, in addition to being another of his most usual attributes.
We end this description with the two delicious landscapes conceived almost as grisailles, although they are not, since they use a wider range of colours, although reduced to greens, greys and blues. Both present a combination of cities with mountainous landscapes, and in which overcast skies take pride of place. The one above Saint Anthony the Great appears to be a perspective taken from some classical ruins that appear in the foreground, on the left side is a column that rests on a pedestal, and next to it is a pilaster that seems to have formed the base of a missing arch. The landscape above Saint Anthony of Padua differentiates itself by showing a dispersion of different nuclei of houses, one of which has been arranged on a kind of island connected to the mainland by a simple bridge, in this representation the element of water is of great importance.
We cannot end without mentioning the triangular botanical decorations located in the spandrels of the arch that frame the saints, and also to the mouldings that frame the aforementioned small and gorgeous paintings.
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“Saint Anthony the Great and Saint Anthony of Padua”. Pair of carved, gilded, estofado and polychromed wooden reliefs. Anonymous Castilian Romanist. Circa 1600.
Measurements "Anthony the Great": 123 x 46 x 15 cm. Measurements "Anthony of Padua": 120 x 43 x 14 cm.
As occurs on numerous occasions with the Saint Johns – Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist - they also often appear together on altarpieces due to their common name. For the same reason, Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Anthony the great, who have little to do with each other beyond their condition as monks, are also often portrayed together. These two panels, presided over by the aforementioned saints, and topped by landscapes in a horizontal format with rounded ends, undoubtedly belonged to a disassembled altarpiece and these could well have been from the between-section.
The two sculptures, made in a high-relief that is almost freestanding, have a marked Romanist style, in which the distant influences of Juan de Juni (1506-1577), mainly present in the Valladolid area, and Juan de Montejo ( h.1540-1601), a sculptor who worked mainly for the dioceses of Zamora and Salamanca, seem to be combined. Indeed, this Romanist component is perceptible in the way the powerful anatomies are conceived, the severe gestures of their faces, the profuse and tangled beard of Saint Anthony the great, or the folds in his garments, although the latter seem somewhat more advanced. For all these reasons, and because of the pictorial decorations, it is possible to date these pieces to around the year 1600 and deduce that they were made by a leading Castilian workshop, perhaps from Salamanca or Zamora, although this cannot be confirmed with certainty.
Both saints have been depicted by the anonymous sculptor according to their best-known iconographies, and with their most typical attributes. Saint Anthony the Great (251-356) was a Christian monk, hermit and father of monasticism. Legend has it that he experienced a series of diabolical temptations in the desert. The saint is represented as an old man with a long beard who wears a brownish sackcloth habit with a hood, a common garment for the monks of his order (the Antonites). This hospital order, founded in the 11th century, had the function of healing diseases: Saint Anthony’s fire, the plague and syphilis. Due to the large number of establishments opened by this order, the cult of its "founder" spread rapidly during the Middle Ages. Saint Anthony is a standing figure, with his left leg slightly forward. He wears sackcloth, with a belt from which hangs a rosary, and a large hooded cape of the same colour. In his left hand he carries an open book, which he reads attentively, while in the other hand he holds an element of which only the handle remains –it would certainly have been a cane with the tau (the tau or potentized cross was the symbol of the afterlife in ancient Egypt, the saint's homeland)–. From this cane, which he used as a staff, a small bell would have hung, an attribute of the hermits, which he would use to repel the attacks of demons, who fled in fear when they heard the sound. The book, from which the flames of the fire of Saint Anthony sometimes emerge, would have been the Rule of the Antonites. The pig is at the feet of the saint, which are, of course, barefoot. The pig is his most characteristic iconographic element, in addition to being his inseparable companion, and rubs against him as a symbol of brotherhood.
Saint Anthony of Padua was born as Fernando de Bulhões, and was the second most important personality of the Franciscan Order, as well as an outstanding theologian and preacher. The figure is standing, dressed in the Franciscan habit, with a wide neck and cuffs, cinched at the waist by the characteristic chord of the Order. As with other saints, the physiognomy with which he is represented has nothing to do with his real-life face. In his left hand he holds a book on which rests a Christ Child –his most common iconography- that alludes to the appearance of the Madonna and Child to the saint in his room. In it the Mother offers him to her beloved Son. Apparently, this vision is a transposition of the Apparition of Christ Seraphim to Saint Francis of Assisi. The Child, with a muscular anatomy, unstable posture and powerful curly hair with a tuft at the front, holds the orb in his left hand while giving blessing with his right. In the saint's right hand, which is elevated, he could well have displayed a bouquet of lilies, a symbol of purity, in addition to being another of his most usual attributes.
We end this description with the two delicious landscapes conceived almost as grisailles, although they are not, since they use a wider range of colours, although reduced to greens, greys and blues. Both present a combination of cities with mountainous landscapes, and in which overcast skies take pride of place. The one above Saint Anthony the Great appears to be a perspective taken from some classical ruins that appear in the foreground, on the left side is a column that rests on a pedestal, and next to it is a pilaster that seems to have formed the base of a missing arch. The landscape above Saint Anthony of Padua differentiates itself by showing a dispersion of different nuclei of houses, one of which has been arranged on a kind of island connected to the mainland by a simple bridge, in this representation the element of water is of great importance.
We cannot end without mentioning the triangular botanical decorations located in the spandrels of the arch that frame the saints, and also to the mouldings that frame the aforementioned small and gorgeous paintings.
Images. The Divine and the Human
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