Archives: Pig Artists

Germany, (1435-1494) The Virgin and Child with St. Anthony Abbot and a Donor (1472), oil on wood 53.6 x 21.1 in. (92.7 x 53.6 cm.) National Gallery of Canada Editor’s Note: This work was probably commissioned by the individual depicted as kneeling before the Virgin and Child. Though his identity is now lost, he would … Read more

Netherlands, (c.1472-1533) Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi (1517), oil on panel 32.7 x 9.8 in. (83 x 25 cm.) Rijks Museum, Amsterdam Editor’s Note: The work featured here shows the outer doors of the Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi. In its original position in an Amsterdam church during the 16th century, … Read more

Itay, (1511-1587) The Temptation of Saint Anthony (c. 1570s), oil on canvas 17.4 x 14.3 in. (44.1 x 36.4 cm.) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Editor’s Note: In this work featured here, grotesque monsters lurk in the shadows and slowly emerge to taunt Saint Anthony who remains unperturbed, and reads his meditations as his … Read more

Italy, (1395-1455) The Virgin and Child with Saints George and Anthony Abbot (mid 1400s), egg tempera on poplar 18.3 X 11.4 in. (46.5 x 29 cm.) National Gallery, London Editor’s Note: This is Pisanello’s only signed panel painting. This work, exceptional both for its elegance and its naturalism, shows the two saints in a landscape … Read more

United States, (b. 1947) IX — St. Anthony of Egypt — The Hermit (2001), card stock 6 x 9 in. (15.3 x 22.9 cm.) from: “The Tarot of the Saints” Editor’s Note: In his Tarot designs, Place attempts to synchronize Christian hagiography, Gnostic mysticism and Jungian archetypes, believing both the Tarot and the legends of … Read more

Mexico, (1852-1913) LAS TENTACIONES DE SAN ANTONIO [The Temptations of St. Anthony] (1910), relief etching on zinc 3.98 x 4.76 in. (10.1 x 12.1 cm.) Monografia: las Obras de José Guadalupe Posada (1930) Editor’s Note: During his lifetime, the majority of Posada’ s work appeared in penny press publications where the audience required a narrative … Read more

Théophile Raynaud, French (1583-1663), works include: In Symbolicam S. Antonii magni Imaginem commentatio. Raynaud was an erudite French Jesuit theologian, teacher and a writer of great fertility.

Félicien Rops, Belgian, (1833-1898), Pornokrates or La Dame au cochon and La Tentation de St-Antoine or The Temptation of St. Anthony.

Dutch, (1607-1681) and (1609-1685) The Temptation of St. Anthony (ndg.), oil on panel 20.4 x 16.7 in. (51.7 x 42.5 cm.) The Bowes Museum, England Editor’s Note: ‘The Temptation of St. Anthony’ above was painted solely by Cornelis, while the etching of ‘The Porcher’ shown below was a collaboration of Cornelis and Herman. The Porcher … Read more

Germany, (c.1450-1491) Nativity and St. Anthony (ndg.), tempera on wood Musée d’Unterlinden Family of Pigs (c. 1480/1490), engraving 2.6 x 3.7 in. (6.6 x 9.4 cm.) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Boar Family (ndg.), pen and ink on white paper 4.5 x 7.5 in. (11.4 x 19.1 cm.) Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany About the Artist … Read more