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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Saint Sebastian
Alternate Title:
San Sebastiano alla colonna
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Antonio Maineri (Italian painter, active 1476-1514)
Location:
repository: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) 63
Location Note:
Via Belle Arti 56
GPS:
44.497778 11.353333
Date:
1492 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
184.5 cm (height) x 77.5 cm (width)
Subjects:
saints; martyrdom
Description:
This is the only signed and dated work by the artist, who was active in Bologna. The work has a strong similarity to the St. Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna now at the Louvre, but originally in Sainte-Chapelle d'Aigueperse, which the artist may have seen during a visit to France in 1481. (Source: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna; http://www.pinacotec abologna.benicultura li.it/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-MAIN-BNB-SSC-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Saint Sebastian