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desert getaway

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Dave

The Thebaid, a fourteenth-century painting attributed to Gherardo Starnina depicts the Egyptian desert around Thebes as teeming with anchorites. The body of Saint Paul, the first Christian hermit and a contemporary of Saint Anthony , is shown in repose at … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, gherardo starnina, Hieronymous Bosch, martin schongauer, Saint Anthony, saint anthony hermit, Samuel Beckett, Socrates, the anchorites, the stylites, Theodore Roszak, Tom Lubbock | Leave a comment

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