Saint Sebastian

1510-1525 (Renaissance)

31.1 cm 43.2 cm 0.5 cm

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According to legend, Saint Sebastian was a Roman commander executed under Emperor Diocletian (284-305). After refusing to renounce his Christian faith, Sebastian’s fellow soldiers were ordered to tie him up, shoot him with arrows, and leave him for dead, but the saint's body w...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 188; 1897 catalogue: no. 161, as Lorenzo Costa the Elder]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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