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Title
Saint Sebastian
Date
1517-1518
Artist
Artist notes
San Vittorino, L’Aquila 1463 – L’Aquila 1518
Medium
Carved and painted wood
Dimensions
180×48×54 cm
Origin
Church of San Benedetto, L’Aquila
Collection
Location
Position
Inventory
OPA 156
Description
The commission came to Saturnino in the final stage of his brilliant career, with the specific request to adhere to the model of Saint Sebastian by Silvestro dell’Aquila for the Church of Santa Maria del Soccorso. Saturnino must have trained as a sculptor and painter in Silvestro’s workshop, becoming acquainted with the art of the Tuscan Renaissance while still very young. A restoration carried out in 1967 revealed, beneath 18th-century stucco, the original wooden modeling and the original polychromy.
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