Botticelli (Sandro Filipepi) ca. 1445 – 1510

The Temptation of Christ

fresco (345 × 555 cm) — 1481-1482
Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

This work is linked to Matthew 4:1

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After his baptism Jesus spends 40 days in the wilderness, fasting. The devil asks him to turn stone into bread, thereby proving that he is the son of God. Jesus refuses: But he answered and said: It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'