Temptation of St. Anthony 1515

Joachim Patinir's "Temptation of St. Anthony" (1515) is a prime example of Northern Renaissance landscape painting. The meticulously detailed landscape, with its winding river, rolling hills, and distant towns, dominates the canvas, while the figures of St. Anthony and his temptresses are dwarfed by the vastness of the scene. This meticulous detail was common in Netherlandish art, where artists were renowned for their precise depictions of nature and everyday life. The painting, now housed in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, is considered a seminal work in the development of landscape painting.