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The Devil Presenting Saint Augustine with the Book of Vices
Michael Pacher (1435-1498)
Date um 1480
Collection Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Alte Pinakothek München
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 3,000 px
License Public domain
Sizes
11×14 in$59
About this painting
The picture of the Devil tempting Saint Augustine was taken from the Augustinians. Munich's acquisition line records it flatly: the panel arrived in 1812 as secularised property from the Augustinian canonry at Neustift near Brixen. The Devil holds out a book in which a man's sins are written. Beyond that the Alte Pinakothek publishes nothing at all — no description, no literature. What it does give is Swiss pine, 103 by 91 centimetres, and a date of about 1480.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.