Die Versuchung des Nathanael - Einsiedler auf dem Weg zum Brunnen

c. 1450

not on display

Giuliano Amidei, attributed to1446 tätig in Florenz – 1496 Lucca

The anchorite Nathanael sits in his walled-up cell, which he never intends to leave again. In vain, the devil tries to dissuade him from his decision by staging an accident: the loaves carried by a collapsed donkey are meant for a monk who wants to distribute them to the poor.
A hermit who has an exhaustingly long way to the well plans to move his cell closer. He abandons this plan because an angel meets him with the news that he is counting all his footsteps because God wants to reward him in eternity for his long travels.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

The Temptation of Nathanael and Two Hermits on the Way to the Well

Medium

Tempera on poplar wood

Dimensions

image: 29 x 28 cm

Inventory number

1455.b

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Purchased with the bequest of Armin Honegger, 1922

Signature

Inscriptions

Accession year

1922

Provenance

Vgl. verwandte Objekte

Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 37. - Landschaften. Orte der Malerei, hrsg. von Philippe Büttner, Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 2020, No. 1.

Object type

painting

Classification

A 1[3] painting Middle Ages ITA

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