Lead us to “Temptation”
“The Temptation of St Anthony”
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Substantial in its wow factor, Dali’s 1946 oil “The Temptation of St Anthony” has visitors to the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels getting into fistfights over whether it’s better or worse than the literally dozens of other depictions of the poor, beleagured old Saint of the Egyptian desert.
Interestingly, a panel of judges once weighed it up against 10 other versions, all done at the same time and for the same reason – it was needed for a movie – and decided that Dali’s wasn’t the one they preferred. He must have been gutted, ready to swear off cinema forever (unless Hitchcock phoned, of course). See the rest.
