Cleveland Museum of Art
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Martin Schongauer (German, c. 1450–1491) · 1470–75
Prints of Saint Anthony like this one were believed to function as protective tools against ergotism (also called St. Anthony's Fire), a disease causing painful putrefaction of the limbs cased by fungus found on rye.
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