Sci-Fi-O-Rama » Matthias Grünewald http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com Welcome to Sci-Fi-O-Rama! A visual scrapbook for cataloging inspiring Art, Graphics and Illustration with a Sci-Fi and Fantasy Slant. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:29:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Matthias Grünewald – Temptation of St. Anthony http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2009/01/06/matthias-grunewald-gruen/ http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2009/01/06/matthias-grunewald-gruen/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:51:28 +0000 Kie http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/?p=830 Matthias Grünewald - Gruen

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The beautiful grotesque; Matthias Grünewald’s (1470 AD – 1528 AD)
depiction of “The Temptation of St. Anthony” a religious theme that’s has been repeated many time’s in European Art most notably by Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali. These images are taken from just one panel of the twelve panel’s that make up the magnificent ‘The Isenheim Altarpiece‘ the masterpiece for which German Artist Grünewald is most famous for.

The Isenheim Altarpiece was painted between 1512 and 1516 and now stand’s on display at The Unterlinden Museum at Colmar, Alsace, in France – read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isenheim_Altarpiece

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