Title

St Paul the Hermit, 1644. Creator: Workshop of Jusepe de Ribera.

Caption

St Paul the Hermit, 1644. Paul of Thebaid was considered the first of the hermits of Egypt - men and women who, to escape persecution as Christians in the 3rd century, chose a life of solitude for the sake of contemplation and asceticism. According to tradition, Paul remained in the desert for almost ninety years, wearing only a garment of woven palm leaves and subsisting on fruit and bread.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A99_135

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,0Mb (2,2Mb) / 12,5in x 16,5in / 3738 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait people male man men historical religious arts painting country religion Spain Spanish figure figures Sweden Swedish art guy museum color scene Christian Christianity saint Santa depiction location century gallery st paul concept exhibition exhibit santo 17th century art gallery oil Painting Colour culture history historic seventeenth century hermit Oil on canvas TGN St Paul the Hermit St Paul the Hermit Oil on canvas art centre Stockholm National Museum Painting Heritage Art St Paul the Hermit National Museum Sweden Nationalmuseum Sweden religious art? Workshop of Jusepe de Ribera Jusepe de Ribera Workshop of Paul of Thebaid