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SEBASTIAN ziata, Florence ; sold to National Gallery in 1857 by Marchese Pucci. The saint is a portrait of Giuo di Lodovico Capponi. A fine work, but praised to exaggeration by Vasari. Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 292 ; C. & C., Italy, ii. 392 ; Richa, Cliiese, viii. 54 ; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Kichter, 32. By Theodule Ribot, Luxembourg Museum, Paris ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 2 in. x 4 ft. 3 in. The saint extended, in front ; beside him, Irene and another woman are trying to St. Sebastian, Antonio Pollajuolo, National Gallery, London. stanch the blood which flows from his wounds. In manner of Caravaggio. Salon, 18G5 ; bought by State for 6,000 francs. Larousse, xiv. 445. By Eubem, Berlin Museum ; canvas, life- size. Painted in Italy about 1GOG. Formerly in Muuro Collection, England ; acquired in 1884 for 101. Waagen, Treasures, ii. 136. By II Sodoma, Uffizi, Florence ; canvas, figure life-size. The saint, pierced with ar- rows, bound to a tree, in a landscape with ruins ; above, an angel about to crown him. On the reverse of the same canvas is a Ma- donna in Clouds, with SS. Gismondo and Koch and three Flagellants beneath. Paint- ed in 1525 for the brotherhood of St. Sebas- tian in Camellia, Siena, who bore it as a banner in processions. Placed in Uffizi in 1786. Vasari, ed. Mil., vi., 390; Molini, Gal. di Firenze, ii. 89 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 225 ; Lasinio, i. PI. 72. By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice ; canvas, in narrow interval between two win- dows. The saint fastened to a tree, with the arrows in his body. " The most majes- tic St. Sebastian in existence ; there is not a more remarkable picture in Venice. "- Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 342. By Titian. See Altarpiece of Brescia. By Titian, Harrach Collection, Vienna ; can- vas stretched on panel, life-size. The saint, with hands bound behind his back, one ar- row in breast and one in left leg, looks up to heaven. Said to have come from the sacristy of S. M. della Salute, Venice ; but may be the one once in the Escorial. C. & C., Titian, ii. 427 ; Hume, Titian, 82. By Titian, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; canvas, full-length, life-size. The saint, bound to a tree, with an arrow in his breast. From Barberigo Collection, now so injured that it cannot be shown. Possibly the orig- inal of the St. Sebastian painted for Charles V., once in the Escorial, but now lost. C. & C., Titian, ii. 423. By Titian, Vatican. See Madonna di San Niccolo. By Paolo Veronese, S. Sebastiano, Ven- ice ; canvas. The saint, in armour, and standing with a banner in his hand at the top of a flight of stairs, exhorts his com- panions, Marcus and Marcellinus, who are surrounded by weeping friends, to confess their faith. Zanotto, 428 ; Larousse, xiv. 445. Subject treated also by Garofalo, Mont- pellier Museum ; Bartolommeo Schidone, Naples Museum ; Denis Calvaert, Caen Mu- seum ; Luca Giordano, Dresden Museum ; Antonello da Messina, Dresden Gallery, 164