St. Anthony of the Desert was born in Egypt on Jan. 12, ... Anthony also knew St. Paul the Hermit, ... Teniers, Bosch, Cézanne, and Dali made St. Anthony the subject of many magnificent works.

This is what Sassetta shows in The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit. It's a sub-section of an altarpiece, and its story is about cave-dwelling hermits in the Egyptian desert, in ...