Sebastian
Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
Max Resolution:1256×3289 PX
Title:Sebastian
Artists:Sandro Botticelli
Date:c.1473
Style:Early Renaissance
Genre:religious painting
Medium:tempera
Location:Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
Dimensions:195×75 cm
Copyright:Public domain
St. Sebastian is a painting of the eponymous Christian saint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed in 1474 for the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence. It is housed in the Staatliche Museen of Berlin.
Kenneth Clark considered this picture remarkable for its closeness to the spirit of harmonious repose found in classical sculpture:
Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Sankt Sebastian" (in Neue Gedichte, 1907) seems to have a close correspondence in description and mood to Botticelli's painting, as Rilke's translator J.B. Leishman and Jane Davidson Reid have observed.