Temptation of Saint Anthony

The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a Christian narrative in which the desert hermit Anthony resists demonic assaults through faith and spiritual discipline. Its episodes became a recurring subject in Christian art and literature.

Temptation of Saint Anthony (Bosch painting): A triptych by Hieronymus Bosch depicting Anthony amid demonic creatures and scenes of spiritual disorder. Bosch turns the hermit's trials into a densely populated vision of temptation.
Athanasius of Alexandria: A fourth-century bishop and theologian whose writings shaped Christian doctrine and accounts of monastic life. His biography of Anthony helped make the hermit's temptations widely known.
Christian demonology: Christian teachings and traditions concerning demons, their nature, and their activity. The assaults are presented as demonic agents acting against the hermit's faith.
Saint Anthony's fire: A medieval name for ergotism, a disease historically treated at hospitals run by the Order of Saint Anthony. The saint's name also became linked to bodily suffering and healing.
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Flaubert novel): Gustave Flaubert’s dramatic prose work portraying Anthony’s visions of heresies, desires, and religious figures. Flaubert expands the hermit's ordeal into a pageant of belief and desire.
Life of Antony: Athanasius’s biography of Antony, presenting the monk as a model of Christian asceticism. It supplies the best-known early account of Anthony's demonic trials.
Asceticism: A disciplined practice of self-restraint intended to cultivate spiritual or moral aims. Anthony's resistance relies on practices of bodily and spiritual discipline.
Order of Saint Anthony: A medieval religious order founded to care for people suffering from ergotism and other illnesses. The order carried Anthony's cult into practices of care for the sick.
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Dalí painting): Salvador Dalí’s 1946 painting of Anthony confronting monumental, fantastical figures. Dalí gives the saint's resistance a surreal landscape of looming temptations.
Anthony the Great: An Egyptian Christian ascetic of the third and fourth centuries, revered as a founder of monasticism. The narrative centers on this historical hermit's solitary spiritual struggle.

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