Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Sebastiano curato da Irene (Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and Her Maid) c.1630–1640 Oil on canvas, 208 x 157 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia Compare: Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Sebastiano curato da Sant’Irene 1628 Hermitage Museum, Saint…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Madonna col Bambino, sant’Anna e quattro santi (Madonna and Child with Saint Anne and four saints) 1527–1529 Oil on wood, 228 x 176 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) San Sebastiano curato da Irene (Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and Her Companions) c.1660 Oil on canvas, 151.1 x 199.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Guercino (1591-1666) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 1653 Oil on canvas, 253 x 169 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Work of the Bolognese school artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, the painting depicts St Sebastian, officer of the Praetorian Guard of…
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina alla presenza di san Sebastiano (The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine in the presence of Saint Sebastian; in the landscape, martyrs of two saints) c.1526–1527 Oil on wood, 105 × 102 cm Musée du…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) c.1457–1459 Oil on poplar, 68 × 30 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Sebastian was the leader of the bodyguard of the Roman emperor Diocletian and was sentenced to death for his Christian faith. The saint…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino tra San Pietro e San Sebastiano (Madonna and Child between Saint Peter and Saint Sebastian) c.1475 Oil on wood, 82.7 × 58.7 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ragazzo con la freccia (Boy with an Arrow) c.1505 Oil on poplar, 48 × 41.8 × 2.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This bust of an idealized young man with a rich mane of curls and an arrow in…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) 1474 Tempera on poplar panel, 195 x 75 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The Roman officer Sebastian was supposed to renounce his Christian faith in order to serve as the bodyguard of the Emperor Diocletian. When he…
