Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Saint Sebastian
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Saint Sebastian
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Image View:
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Detail, Venetian background with gondoliers on a canal
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Creator:
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Liberale da Verona (Italian painter, ca. 1445-ca. 1526)
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Location:
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repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy) 263
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Location Note:
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Via Brera 28
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GPS:
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+45.471944+9.188056
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Date:
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ca. 1495-1500 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on wood panel
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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198 cm (height) x 95 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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saints; Sebastian, Saint; Venice; martyrdom
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Description:
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The panel, which was executed around 1490 for the church of San Domenico in Ancona, has an unusual iconography that sets the martyrdom of the saint, represented in the traditional way bound to a tree and pierced by arrows, against the backdrop of a Venetian canal with gondolas. The background reflects a passion for narrative on the part of the artist, who had worked as an illuminator in Central Italy. The figure of the saint alludes to the painting of the same subject by Antonello da Messina (now in Dresden), from which the detail of the foreshortened column is also derived. (Source: Brera Pinacoteca [website]; http://pinacotecabrera.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-VERONA-SS-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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