Saint Anthony Abbot Tormented by Demons

Artist: Sano di Pietro (Siena, 1405–1481)

ca. 1440

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

The first twenty years of the career of Sano di Pietro, otherwise a highly prolific artist, are undocumented. Some scholars believe that the youthful Sano is responsible for works traditionally ascribed to an anonymous painter known as the Master of the Osservanza, while others argue that Sano and the Master of the Osservanza are distinct artists who collaborated in one of the professional partnerships common in Siena in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This painting formed part of a famous series of eight scenes from the legend of Saint Anthony Abbot that included the Temptation of Saint Anthony by the Master of the Osservanza, also in the Yale University Art Gallery's collection (1871.57).

Medium

Tempera and gold on panel

Dimensions

18 7/8 × 13 11/16 in. (47.9 × 34.7 cm)
picture surface: 18 3/8 × 13 1/4 in. (46.7 × 33.6 cm)

Credit Line

University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves

Accession Number

1871.58

Geography

Made in Siena, Italy

Culture

Italian, Siena

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence. Potentially purchased by Jarves in Macerata in the 1850s when the Giambattista Caccialupi collection was being broken up and sold (see Boskovits & Brown 2003, p. 493 note 33).
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 48, 51, fig. 41b
  • Charles Seymour Jr. et al., Italian Primitives: The Case History of a Collection and Its Conservation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 22–23
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 599
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 208–12, no. 158, ill.
  • Rediscovered Italian Paintings, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1952), 24–27
  • Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 297
  • Richard Offner, Italian Primitives at Yale University: Comments and Revisions (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1927), 7, 39–40, fig. 31
  • Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 151–54, no. 58, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

religious art

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