(b. ca. 1450, 's-Hertogenbosch, d. 1516, 's-Hertogenbosch)
Triptych of Temptation of St Anthony (detail)
1505-06
Oil on panel
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon
The picture shows a detail of the central panel, which represents the Fire of the Cloister (after Fraenger).
A burning village illuminates the dusky background, probably a reference to the disease of ergotism or "St Anthony's Fire", whose victims invoked the name of St Anthony for relief.
