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| - | In the iconography of the [[Temptation of Saint Anthony]], one frequently encounters that the devil came to the saint in the guise of a woman. The earliest I have been able to trace of this 'devil disguised as a woman' is in the ''[[Master of the Osservanza Triptych]]''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-anthony-tempted-by-the-devil-in-the-guise-of-a-woman--_Master_Osservanza.jpg?uselang=ru] | + | In the iconography of the [[Temptation of Saint Anthony]], one frequently encounters that the devil came to the saint in the guise of a woman. The earliest I have been able to trace of this 'devil disguised as a woman' is in the ''[[Master of the Osservanza Triptych]]''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-anthony-tempted-by-the-devil-in-the-guise-of-a-woman--_Master_Osservanza.jpg] |
| + | I've been trying to trace the provenance of this woman, largely unsuccessfully. | ||
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| + | The closest I came up with is this passage in ''[[The Golden Legend]]'', which talks of the devil of fornication: | ||
| [[S. Anthony]] was born in Egypt of good and religious father and mother, and when he was but twenty years old, he heard on a time in the church read in the gospel, that said : ' If thou wilt be perfect, go sell all that thou hast and give it to poor men ' ; and then according thereto he sold all that he had, and gave it to the poor people and became an hermit. He had overmany temptations of the devil. On a time when he had overcome the spirit of fornication, the devil came to him in the form of a little child all black, and fell down at his feet and confessed that he was the devil of fornication, which S. Anthony had desired and prayed to see him, for to know him that so tempted young people. Then said S. Anthony : ' Sith I have perceived that thou art so foul a thing, I shall never doubt thee.' [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/GoldenLegend-Volume2.asp] | [[S. Anthony]] was born in Egypt of good and religious father and mother, and when he was but twenty years old, he heard on a time in the church read in the gospel, that said : ' If thou wilt be perfect, go sell all that thou hast and give it to poor men ' ; and then according thereto he sold all that he had, and gave it to the poor people and became an hermit. He had overmany temptations of the devil. On a time when he had overcome the spirit of fornication, the devil came to him in the form of a little child all black, and fell down at his feet and confessed that he was the devil of fornication, which S. Anthony had desired and prayed to see him, for to know him that so tempted young people. Then said S. Anthony : ' Sith I have perceived that thou art so foul a thing, I shall never doubt thee.' [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/GoldenLegend-Volume2.asp] | ||
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| - | A great multitude of devils so much beat him that | ||
| - | his servant bare him upon his shoulders in to his | ||
| - | house as he had been dead. When the other hermits | ||
| - | were assembled and wept his death, and would have | ||
| - | done his service, suddenly S. Anthony revived and | ||
| - | made his servant to bear him into the pit again | ||
| - | where the devils had so evil beaten him, and began | ||
| - | to summon the devils again, which had beaten him, | ||
| - | to battles. And anon they came in form of divers | ||
| - | beasts wild and savage, of whom that one howled, | ||
| - | another siffled, and another cried, and another brayed | ||
| - | and assailed S. Anthony, that one with the horns, | ||
| - | the others with their teeth, and the others with their | ||
| - | paws and ongles, and disturned and all to-rent his | ||
| - | body that he supposed well to die. Then came a | ||
| - | clear brightness, and all the beasts fled away, and | ||
| - | S. Anthony understood that in this great light our | ||
| - | Lord came, and he said twice : ' Who art thou ? ' The | ||
| - | good Jesu answered : ' I am here Anthony.' Then | ||
| - | said S. Anthony: *0 good Jesu! where hast thou | ||
| - | been so long? why wert thou not here with me at | ||
| - | the beginning to help me and to heal my wounds?' | ||
| - | Then our Lord said : ' I was here: but I would see and | ||
| - | abide to see thy battle; and because thou hast manly | ||
| - | fought and well maintained thy battle, I shall make | ||
| - | thy name to be spread through all the world.' | ||
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| - | S. Anthony was of so great fervour and burning | ||
| - | love to God, that when Maximus, the emperor, slew | ||
| - | and martyred christian men, he followed the martyrs | ||
| - | that he might be a martyr with them and deserve | ||
| - | it, and was sorry that martyrdom was not given to | ||
| - | him. | ||
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| - | After this, as S. Anthony went in desert he found | ||
| - | a platter of silver in his way ; then he thought whence | ||
| - | this platter should come, seeing it was in no way for | ||
| - | any man to pass, and also if it had fallen from any | ||
| - | man he should have heard it sound in the falling. | ||
| - | Then saw he well that the devil had laid it there for | ||
| - | to tempt him, and said : ' Ha ! devil, thou weenest to tempt me and deceive me, but it shall not be in thy | ||
| - | power.' Then the platter vanished away as a little | ||
| - | smoke. And in likewise it happed him of a mass of | ||
| - | gold that he found in this way, which the devil had | ||
| - | cast for to deceive him, which he took and cast it | ||
| - | into the fire and anon it vanished away. After, it | ||
| - | happed that S. Anthony on a time was in prayer, | ||
| - | and saw in a vision all the world full of snares and | ||
| - | gins. Then cried S. Anthony and said : ' O good | ||
| - | Lord, who may escape from these snares?' And a | ||
| - | voice said to him : ' Very humility shall escape them | ||
| - | without more.' | ||
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| - | A young man passed by S. Anthony and his bow | ||
| - | in his hand, and beheld how S. Anthony played with | ||
| - | his fellows, and was evil apaid. Then S. Anthony | ||
| - | said to him that he should bend his bow, and so he | ||
| - | did, and shot two or three shots tofore him, and anon | ||
| - | he unbent his bow. Then demanded him S. Anthony | ||
| - | why he held not his bow bent. And he answered | ||
| - | that it should then be over weak and feeble ; then | ||
| - | said to him S. Anthony : ' In likewise play the monks, | ||
| - | for to be after more strong to serve God.' | ||
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| - | Some hermits came to S. Anthony for to visit | ||
| - | him, and their abbot was with them ; then said | ||
| - | S. Anthony to the hermits : ' Ye have a good wise | ||
| - | man with you ' ; and after he said to the abbot : ' Thou | ||
| - | hast founden good brethren.' Then answered the | ||
| - | abbot : ' Truly I have good brethren, but there is no | ||
| - | door on their house ; each body may enter that will, | ||
| - | and go into the stable and unbind the ass of within.' | ||
| - | And this said he because that the brethren had | ||
| - | overmuch their mouths open to speak, for anon as | ||
| - | they have thought on a thing is it come to the | ||
| - | mouth. Then S. Anthony said : ' Ye ought to know | ||
| - | that there be three bodily movings, that one is of | ||
| - | nature, another of overmuch plenty of meats, and the | ||
| - | third of the devil.' | ||
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| - | On a time as S. Anthony was in the wilderness | ||
| - | in his prayer and was weary, he said to our Lord : | ||
| - | ' Lord, I have great desire to be saved, but my | ||
| - | thoughts let me.' Then appeared an angel to him | ||
| - | and said : ' Do as I do, and thou shalt be safe,' and | ||
| - | he went out and saw him one while labour and | ||
| - | another while pray. | ||
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| - | It happed on a time that S. Anthony laboured | ||
| - | with his brethren the hermits, and he saw a vision | ||
| - | much sorrowful, and therefore he kneeled down on | ||
| - | his knees and prayed our Lord that he would empesh | ||
| - | the great sorrow that was to come. Then the other | ||
| - | hermits demanded what thing it was, and he said | ||
| - | that it was a great sorrow : 'for I have seen great | ||
| - | plenty of beasts which environed me, which feared | ||
| - | all the country, and I wot well that this is to say | ||
| - | that there shall come a great trouble of men like unto | ||
| - | beasts, that shall defoul the sacraments of holy | ||
| - | church.' Then came a voice from heaven to | ||
| - | S. Anthony that said that 'great abomination shall | ||
| - | come to mine altar.' And anon after, the heresy of | ||
| - | Arians began, and much troubled holy church, and | ||
| - | did many evils, and slew christian men like sheep | ||
| - | upon the altars. | ||
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| - | At the last S. Anthony assembled the hermits and | ||
| - | gave to them the peace, and died and departed out | ||
| - | of this world holily when he was of the age of an | ||
| - | hundred and five years. Pray we to him that he | ||
| - | pray for us. | ||
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In the iconography of the Temptation of Saint Anthony, one frequently encounters that the devil came to the saint in the guise of a woman. The earliest I have been able to trace of this 'devil disguised as a woman' is in the Master of the Osservanza Triptych[1]
I've been trying to trace the provenance of this woman, largely unsuccessfully.
The closest I came up with is this passage in The Golden Legend, which talks of the devil of fornication:
S. Anthony was born in Egypt of good and religious father and mother, and when he was but twenty years old, he heard on a time in the church read in the gospel, that said : ' If thou wilt be perfect, go sell all that thou hast and give it to poor men ' ; and then according thereto he sold all that he had, and gave it to the poor people and became an hermit. He had overmany temptations of the devil. On a time when he had overcome the spirit of fornication, the devil came to him in the form of a little child all black, and fell down at his feet and confessed that he was the devil of fornication, which S. Anthony had desired and prayed to see him, for to know him that so tempted young people. Then said S. Anthony : ' Sith I have perceived that thou art so foul a thing, I shall never doubt thee.' [2]
Seascape #17 (Two Tits) (1966). Oil on canvas. 60" x 72" by Tom Wesselmann.
Used on the cover of Avant Garde (magazine) issue 5
Image taken from the mysterious Codex99[3]
Hommage à l'Ecole de Fontainebleau by Lambert Maria Wintersberger
Used on the cover of Avant Garde (magazine) issue 14
The complete list of covers and contents can be found here[4]
Voor 1B en BVL blijft dit Ellen Gers,
voor 1 en 2TSO is dit Karel Verelst.
3-4 TSO Sofie Verdeyen
5-6-7TSO en 7BSO Stef Goovaerts
3-4-5-6BSO Greet Beyens
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