About the images in this gallery

The galleries represent historical paintings and etchings depicting hermits or eremitic themes such as solitude. For the West, includes works from the Northern and Italian Renaissance, transitional works from Baroque and Mannerism to Romantic and later decadent and surrealist. Among works from Asia are Chinese "amateur" landscape paintings of eremetic themes. From Japan are paintings of famous hermit-poets and writers, and representatieve works used by centralizimg authorities to counter the perceived societal threat of traditional Chinese eremetic themes.

GALLERIES OF ART REPRESENTED:

EUROPE & THE WEST
Temptation of St. Anthony - Early Modern
Temptation of St. Anthony - Modern
St. Paul of Thebes
St. Paul of Thebes with St. Anthony
St. Jerome as Hermit
Sadeler: Oraculum Anchoreticum
Sadeler: Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum [Male hermits]
Sadeler: Solitudo Sive Vitae Foeminarum Anachoritarum [Women hermits]
Sadeler: Sylvae Sacrae [Hermits in Landscapes]
Sadeler: Trophaeum Vitae Solitariae [The Triumph of solitude]
Traditional depictions of Western hermits - Early Modern to Modern
Modern depictions of Western hermits - Early Modern to Modern
ASIA
China: Tang era (7th-8th centuries)
China: Yuan to Ming eras (14th-17th centuries)
Japan: Portraits of hermits (classic poets & writers)
Japan: Eremitism, Painting, and Politics: Chinese eremitic themes
Japan: Eremitism, Painting, and Politics: Hanshan