This is my all time favorite motif!

St. Anthony is a fascinating figure. Father of wilderness monasticism, left Egypt to hear god, spent the night in a cave fighting the devil and won; the patron saint of psychedelics or at least Ergotism, the affliction of entire towns when the grain was infected with ergot fungus, which would later by synthesized into LSD.

I am actually in the process of curating a museum quality coffee table book in collaboration with Getty of at least 117 of the variations on this theme from Dali to Bosch to Michelangelo.

(1/17 is St. Anthony's day, and my birthday, and my name is Anthony - coincidentally).

Shoot me an email if you'd like to collaborate or would like an update when the project officially launches! a+st@175g.com