The Temptation of St Anthony


This subject has been painted as well as etched by many interesting artists over the centuries. From the earlier etchings of Shongauer to Bosch's elaborate triptych and recently with Ernst and Dali's versions, The Temptation of St Anthony has given each artist the chance to express some of their strangest fantasies.

Max Ernst
Salvador Dali
Pieter Brueghel The Elder
Jan Brueghel The Elder
Hieronymus Bosch's Triptych.
Click here to see larger versions of each panel.
Martin Shongauer
Click here to see a manipulated version of Shongauer's etching.
Matthias Grunewald
Click here to see a large detail of Gruenwald's painting.
Lucas Cranach
Jacques Callot
Bela Kondor

Gunsho - Demonology
"Gunsho is undertaking an intensive effort to create modern interpretations of the 72 demons of the Goetia and other works of demonology, to be completed by the end of 2006. Each demon will be the subject of a print, and the series is to be titled DEMONOLOGY."

Link found at Artdorks.

Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko
This gallery contains a large selection of surreal landscapes and characters. Most if not all of the work is symbolic of some mathematical equation similar to M.C Escher's drawings.

Click here to see a couple of Fomenko's best works.

Rob Sato
Some very unusual creatures and a short comic about "a girl afflicted with a supernatural eating disorder." Sato's paintings of abstracted monster things are some of the best I've seen in awhile.

M.Hutter
This gallery contains a very peculiar mix of erotic art alongside imagery of monsters. There's a great selection of color paintings, ink drawings and even digital photo manipulations. This is one of my favorite images from the site.

Heinz Zander
The fantastic paintings of Zander reveal a world of humans coexisting with bizarre beasts and human hybrids. The work has some similarity in style to that of José Hernández.
The site seems to have no English version but it is easy enough to navigate through. Check out the link at the top titled "Verkaufsausstellung " and click on Zander's name in the upper left to see a few more of his paintings.


Thanks for suggesting this artist to me, Fufu!