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Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken (at top), [19] Josse Lieferinxe, 1497–1499, The Walters Art Museum. The belief that Saint Sebastian was a defense against the plague was a medieval addition to his reputation, which largely accounts for the enormous increase in his importance in the Late Middle Ages. [20]
The Judgment of Sebastian. The Saettatura (Shooting of Arrows) panel is the only one signed by Semitecolo [2] and stands as an important source of information. The complete altarpiece is composed of six panels, four of which depict Saint Sebastian's martyrdom, including the Saettatura. [1]
Saint Sebastian is a popular saint in both the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox traditions. Pierced with arrows—a symbol associated with divine punishment in the form of pestilence since antiquity—and yet miraculously saved from near death, Saint Sebastian was often invoked to intercede on the behalf of plague victims in the 15th and 16th ...
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci showing the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. It was rediscovered in Paris in March 2016, classed as a "trésor national" and presented to the press on 10 January 2017. Its auction estimate was 15,000,000 Euros and initially it was placed under an export ban in June 2017 to give ...
St Sebastian (Perugino, São Paulo), c 1505, copy of the last Saint Sebastian (Titian, Hermitage) , 1570-72 Saint Sebastian (El Greco, 1576–1579) or simply Saint Sebastian , 1576–1579
Sebastian's death was firmly located in Rome, where he was the third patron saint, [12] and churches dedicated to him were built on the supposed locations of the events. [13] The subject was mainly painted by artists in Italy, and also by a number in the Low Countries .
Subway surveillance images show Sebastian Zapeta-Calil leaving the car as the woman burns to death. Surely, someone would have thrown their coat over her, ran to look for water, screamed at her to ...
It can be contrasted with its near-contemporary, the Saint Sebastian by Botticelli, which instead puts the figure of the saint in isolation in a Flemish-inspired landscape. Francesco Botticini's Saint Sebastian, formerly attributed to Andrea del Castagno and dated to the years immediately after 1474, borrows from the Botticelli.