Grunewald, Matthias (1470c.-1528) - 1512-1516 The Temptation of St.Anthony - Isenheim Altar Panel ( Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France)

The "mythical sparrow-hawk" in Grunewald's Temptation of St. Anthony is the starting point for Berger's conjecture that the wounds on Grunewald's Christ are intentionally "suggestive of a bird that has had its feathers plucked."

Could be, I suppose. But does this idea go against the notion that Grunewald's Christ is suffering from St. Anthony's fire? Though Berger mentions the plague and syphilis, he is silent on the disease known as St. Anthony's fire (apparently now called ergotism) and its relation to this masterpiece.

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