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Onuphrius (Greek: Ὀνούφριος, romanized: Onouphrios; also Onoufrios) lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the 4th or 5th centuries. He is venerated as Saint Onuphrius in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic churches, as Venerable Onuphrius in Eastern Orthodoxy, and as Saint Nofer the Anchorite in ...
Onuphrius, uno de los grandes cuentos de Théophile Gautier, relata la historia de un muchacho llamado Onuphrius, básicamente un loco romántico obsesionado con los libros de leyendas, la brujería, y finalmente la gota que rebalsaría el vaso de su cordura: los cuentos de E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Oil on unlined canvas. The fifth-century Saint Onuphrius was a Persian hermit who withdrew as an Anchorite to the desert of Thebes, where a raven miraculously brought his daily ration of food. At his feet, a crown and scepter allude to his royal origins as, according to legend, he was the son of a Persian king.
Saint Onuphrius, a hermit saint of the fourth century AD, retired to the Egyptian desert in search of solitude. As with other works for the decoration of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid , this landscape was created by two artists: Claude himself, who painted the landscape, and a second, unknown artist who painted the hermit.
Label Text. This pious hermit lived in fourth-century Egypt and spent 40 years in the desert, in prayer and complete isolation. He is traditionally represented as a meagre old man...
22 de mar. de 2023 · St. Onuphrius as depicted among a number of confessors in the 14th-century Spanish Trinity Adored by All Saints. This is how the saint is usually depicted in Orthodox images – with the leafy skirt mentioned in Paphnutius but without the hair on his body.
Saint Onuphrius Date 1515 - 1525 Technique Oil Support Panel Dimension Height: 70 cm.; Width: 30 cm. Provenance Private Collection, Madrid; acquired by the Prado Museum from Subastas Segre, 2006.
