"The Torment of Saint Anthony, the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). Described by Michelangelo’s earliest biographers, this remarkably fresh and well-preserved gem is believed to have been painted in 1487–88, when Michelangelo was 12 or 13 years old. The work is executed in egg tempera and oil on a wooden panel and is one of only four easel paintings generally regarded as having come from his hand. The others are the Doni Tondo, in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, and two unfinished paintings, The Manchester Madonna and The Entombment, both housed in the National Gallery, London." (https://www.kimbellart.org/exhibition/michelangelos-first-painting).

"The Torment of Saint Anthony, the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). Described by Michelangelo’s earliest biographers, this remarkably fresh and well-preserved gem is believed to have been painted in 1487–88, when Michelangelo was 12 or 13 years old. The work is executed in egg tempera and oil on a wooden panel and is one of only four easel paintings generally regarded as having come from his hand. The others are the Doni Tondo, in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, and two unfinished paintings, The Manchester Madonna and The Entombment, both housed in the National Gallery, London." (https://www.kimbellart.org/exhibition/michelangelos-first-painting).

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