Santo Antonio Abate Oil painting on canvas The saint absorbed in reading is leaning against a rock, is a backdrop to a rocky wall that seems illuminated by a river that flows towards the valley. The iconographic symbols of Saint Anthony the Abbot are also present, also called Saint Anthony the Great, Saint Anthony of Egypt, Saint Anthony of the Fire, Saint Anthony of the Desert, Saint Anthony the Anchorite (Qumans, 251 - the Tebaide desert, 17 January 356). Abbot and Egyptian hermit, considered the founder of Christian monasticism and the first of the abbots. He must be