Some Remarkable Iconography
Few Saints have been so obsessively reproduced and painted as St. Sebastian.
Handsome as a pagan deity and more pagan than a greek god.
The martyrdom of Sebastian has inspired to Renaissance and Baroque artists a hint of bizarre that can't be found in other dead-to-be saint portraits.
Andrea Mantegna
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (il Sodoma)
Domenico Theotokopulos (El Greco)
Antonello da Messina
Lorenzo Costa
Honoré Daumier
Among other well known artists who dedicated a picture, a statue or something to this Saint we find:
Liberale da Verona
Carlo Crivelli
Andrea del Sarto
Jacopo de' Barbari
Francesco Melanzio
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Cima da Conegliano
And more recently:
Orazio Riminaldi
Gustave Moreau
Alfred Courmes
Klaus Bodanza
Regis Dho
Back
This page hosted by GEOCITIES Get your own
Free Home Page
