Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Saint Sebastian
Image View:
Overall view with frame (cropped)
Creator:
Liberale da Verona (Italian painter, ca. 1445-ca. 1526)
Location:
repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy) 263
Location Note:
Via Brera 28
GPS:
45.471944 9.188056
Date:
ca. 1495-1500 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
198 cm (height) x 95 cm (width)
Subjects:
saints; Sebastian, Saint; Venice; martyrdom
Description:
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://pinacotecabre ra.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-VERONA-SS-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Saint Sebastian