1574
oil
canvas
From the collection of Belvedere
Dominant colour
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is a 1574 oil by Jacopo Bassano, a Early Baroque Italian work, depicting Man, held at Belvedere.
This painting shows a man, Saint Sebastian, standing on a stone platform, wearing a white cloth around his waist. He has an arrow in his side and another in his leg. A man in a red robe and a white hat is pulling the arrow out of his side. The background is a blue sky with trees and a building. The man in the red robe seems to be helping Saint Sebastian, but the scene looks painful. There is a lot of detail in the painting, especially in the folds of the robes and the expressions on the men's faces. If you're interested in learning more about the technique used to create this painting, you might want to look up chiaroscuro.
Jacopo Bassano was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. He was born and died in Bassano del Grappa, and took the village as his surname. Having trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco the…
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