The Torment of Saint Anthony | 1488 Frame Style:Black Frame tonal palette

tonal palette

Turner transforms the disaster into a sublime vision of light

The background features a barren landscape that reinforces the theme of desolation and Elijah's isolation

suggesting a tension between divine and infernal powers

and sculptor

The Torment of Saint Anthony | 1488 Frame Style:Black Frame tonal paletteThis painting is now in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. It shows the common medieval subject, included in the Golden Legend and other sources, of Saint Anthony (AD 251 356) being assailed in the desert by demons, whose temptations he resisted; the Temptation of St Anthony (or "Trial") is the more common name of the subject. But this composition apparently shows a later episode where St Anthony, normally flown about the desert supported by