Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken

1497-1499 (Renaissance)

55.4 cm 81.8 cm

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St. Sebastian was a Roman military officer martyred about AD 300 by being shot full of arrows and then clubbed to death. He was prayed to for protection against the plague. This painting depicts one instance of his intercession. According to legend, this event occurred long af...

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Francis Egerton, Earl of Elsmere, by purchase; David M. Koetser, New York and London, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1945, by purchase.
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en
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Renaissance
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