Saturday, August 13, 2011

In the XVIth - XVIIth Centuries one finds a number of representations of the martyr-saint in which no arrows have apparently violated his flesh‑--e.g., Amico Aspertini (c. 1505) (See: Figure 16), Sebastiano Luciani (called: del Piombo) (b. 1540), study (See: Figure 17), Jacopo de Barbari (1509), study (See: Figure 18), Guido Reni (c. 1615) (See: Figure 19), Marcantonio Bassetti (1620) (See: Figure 20), Biagio Manzoni (1630) (See: Figure 21), among others. In the XVIIth & XVIIIth Century rarely does one encounter St. Sebastian with more than four or five arrows entering his flesh. There are exceptions--e.g., an Anonymous Hungarian Master (b. 1625) (See: Figure 22) with nine arrows, and David Teniers (after Mantegna) (c 1655) bristles with 15+ arrows (See: Figure 23).

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