c. 1460 painting by Paolo Uccello
The Thebaid is a tempera on canvas painting by Paolo Uccello, executed "c." 1460, also known as "Scenes from the Lives of the Saints and Monks" and "The Life of the Holy Fathers". It was originally painted for the monastery of San Giorgio alla Costa in the Oltrarno area of Florence and later moved to the Uffizi. It is now in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. 
It is comparable in subject to Uccello's "Scenes of Monastic Life" in the cloister of San Miniato al Monte and in style to his "The Miracle of the Desecrated Host". Its title refers to the Thebaid, a desert region around Thebes in Egypt inhabited by early Christian hermits. It shows specific episodes in the lives of various monastic and eremitic saints:
It also shows several scenes of general monastic and eremitic life: