SCHONGAUER, Martin
(b. ca. 1430, Colmar, d. 1491, Breisach)

Temptations of St Anthony

c. 1475
Copper engraving, 314 x 231 mm
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest

This early work is one of Schongauer's most capricious and dynamic Gothic compositions. Dürer was fascinated by this print, as was Michelangelo, who Vasari tells made a copy of it.