Saint Benedict in front of the Cave at Subiaco

High on the rock at the top of this narrow panel, a monk lowers something on a long rope, and a red devil swoops toward it. The scene comes from the life of Benedict written by Pope Gregory the Great around 593. While the young saint hid in a cave near Subiaco, a monk named Romanus secretly fed him. No path led down the cliff, so Romanus let bread down on a rope with a little bell tied to it, and the ringing announced the meal. The devil, envious of this kindness, threw a stone and broke the bell.

Below, the saint kneels in prayer over a book propped on a tree stump. The Belvedere attributes the panel, painted around 1510, to the Master of the Innerochsenbach St Anne Altarpiece, and showed it in 2021 in an exhibition on the art of Dürer's time.