Artist: Fra Angelico
Date: 1430
Size: 73 x 105 cm
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
Technique: Tempera
In fourteenth-century Italy new interest arose in the life of the early hermits who retired to the Theban and Nitrian deserts in Egypt and lived there alone or in small groups. Vernacular Italian texts based on earlier Greek and Latin hagiographic sources popularized the lives of these cenobitic monks and recluses. This theme soon appeared in contemporary art too: in several Italian cities (Pisa, Siena, Florence) monumental frescos instructed the faithful on the exemplary life of the ascetic desert fathers. In fifteenth-century Florence versions painted on large wood panels were also made. Several of these, including the Budapest panel, survive in complete or fragmentary state.This picture shows various events from the everyday life of the hermits. Most of these cannot be traced to a precise written source and do not relate an actual story; they rather show the fathers
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