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Title
Saint Sebastian
Date
1478
Artist notes
1450 ca. – L’Aquila 1504
Medium
Carved and painted wood
Dimensions
203×66×64 cm
Origin
Church of Santa Maria del Soccorso, L'Aquila
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Inventory
OPS 9
Description
Key work of the Aquilan Renaissance, with this piece Silvestro establishes the iconography of Saint Sebastian in Abruzzo, whose devotion was widespread during times of plague. Commissioned by Domenico di Antonio Caprini along with the abbot of the monastery of Santa Maria del Soccorso, with a document dated 1st December 1478, which also included the creation of a painted altarpiece depicting the stories of Saint Sebastian to enclose the statue of the martyr.
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