It is the first painting by Michelangelo and believed to have been painted when he was twelve or thirteen years old.
Anthony’s dramatic fights against the demons became a resilient Christian topos. The Torment of Saint Anthony, an oil and tempera depiction of the white-faced saint being teased and pulled by demons.
Saint Anthony is being held aloft by ten or so devils, including a weird fish with many spines and a trunk-like snout. The devil at the lower left of the group has breasts and a face in its perineum, which almost makes it double-ended.
The Torment of St. Anthony by Michelangelo 1487
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