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The "temptation" or testing of St Antony by diabolical figures is generally interpreted as the hallucinations of a solitary exhausted by fasting and vigils in the Egyptian desert (Thebaid), according to L. Réau, Iconographie de l'art chrétien, Paris 1958, vol. 4, p. 101. In the present picture, the saint is depicted irreverently as a corpulent elderly monk holding a rosary, while around him monstrous beasts with big eyes stare at him and the devil in the form of a young woman with long black hair kneels beside him

1 drawing : pastel ; sheet 25.6 x 32.2 cm

The temptation of St Antony. Pastel drawing by W.S.

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Unilateral hallucinations : their relative frequency, associations, and pathology / by Alex. Robertson, M.D.

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Hallucinations.

Ueber die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen : Eine physiologische Untersuchung mit einer physiologischen Urkunde des Aristoteles über den Traum / den Philosophen und Aerzten Gewidmet, vonJohannes Müller.

Le miracle et les sciences médicale : hallucination, apparitions, extase, fausse extase.

Du hachisch et de l'aliénation mentale : études psychologiques / par J. Moreau (de Tours).

Die Sinnesdelirien : ein Versuch ihrer physiopsychologischen Begründung und klinischen Darstellung / von R.v. Krafft-Ebing.

Observations on the illusions of the insane, and on the medico-legal question of their confinement / tr. from the French of M. Esquirol by William Liddell.

Three scenes: above, a man with alcoholic delirium has visions of people tormenting him, while a man in bed is terrified by dreams of being attacked by snakes and rats ("Los suenos del alcoholico"); lower left, an alcoholic engraver drops his burin and his drawing; lower right, in hospital, an alcoholic who has had a leg amputated feeds another who is paralysed

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image text and border 78 x 50.2 cm.

Alcoholism: examples of its effects in the form of delirium, loss of ability to work, paralysis, and illness. Colour lithograph attributed to Paul-Emile Colin, ca. 1900.

An incident at the abbey of Bec, Normandy, described in Eadmer's life of Anselm, printed e.g. in Eadmer, The life of St Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury, ed. R.W. Southern, Oxford 1962, chapter xv, pp. 24-25, and in Acta Sanctorum, vol. 11, Paris and Rome 1866, cap. iii, p. 868, para. 21. Eadmer (c. 1060-c. 1126), an English monk who was a member of Anselm's household, knew him well, and wrote his biography. The story is one of those which Eadmer advanced in favour of Anselm's canonisation. Anselm was eventually made a Doctor of the Church, and thus a saint, in 1720, and this drawing reflects his new status at that time. The artist represents the wolves being struck by a laser-like beam representing Saint Anselm's words

1 drawing : pen and black ink and black wash heightened with white on blue paper ; sheet 12.4 x 15.4 cm

A monk, suffering a hallucination that he is being attacked by wolves, being freed from his delusions by Saint Anselm. Drawing by an artist in the circle of J.W. Baumgartner.

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The temptation of St Antony. Pastel drawing by W.S.

Unilateral hallucinations : their relative frequency, associations, and pathology / by Alex. Robertson, M.D.

Hallucinations.

Ueber die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen : Eine physiologische Untersuchung mit einer physiologischen Urkunde des Aristoteles über den Traum / den Philosophen und Aerzten Gewidmet, vonJohannes Müller.

Le miracle et les sciences médicale : hallucination, apparitions, extase, fausse extase.

Du hachisch et de l'aliénation mentale : études psychologiques / par J. Moreau (de Tours).

Die Sinnesdelirien : ein Versuch ihrer physiopsychologischen Begründung und klinischen Darstellung / von R.v. Krafft-Ebing.

Observations on the illusions of the insane, and on the medico-legal question of their confinement / tr. from the French of M. Esquirol by William Liddell.

Alcoholism: examples of its effects in the form of delirium, loss of ability to work, paralysis, and illness. Colour lithograph attributed to Paul-Emile Colin, ca. 1900.

A monk, suffering a hallucination that he is being attacked by wolves, being freed from his delusions by Saint Anselm. Drawing by an artist in the circle of J.W. Baumgartner.

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The temptation of St Antony. Pastel drawing by W.S.

Unilateral hallucinations : their relative frequency, associations, and pathology / by Alex. Robertson, M.D.

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Ueber die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen : Eine physiologische Untersuchung mit einer physiologischen Urkunde des Aristoteles über den Traum / den Philosophen und Aerzten Gewidmet, vonJohannes Müller.

Le miracle et les sciences médicale : hallucination, apparitions, extase, fausse extase.

Du hachisch et de l'aliénation mentale : études psychologiques / par J. Moreau (de Tours).

Die Sinnesdelirien : ein Versuch ihrer physiopsychologischen Begründung und klinischen Darstellung / von R.v. Krafft-Ebing.

Observations on the illusions of the insane, and on the medico-legal question of their confinement / tr. from the French of M. Esquirol by William Liddell.

Alcoholism: examples of its effects in the form of delirium, loss of ability to work, paralysis, and illness. Colour lithograph attributed to Paul-Emile Colin, ca. 1900.

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