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Saint Sebastian

Southern German School

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Saint Sebastian

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This appears to have been the right-hand shutter from a small triptych. Sebastian was a third-century Roman Christian soldier who survived when he was tied to a tree and shot with arrows but was later martyred. He was commonly invoked as a protection against the plague. His cult was particularly widespread in late fifteenth-century Germany.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Title

Saint Sebastian

Date

15th C

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 37 x W 18 cm

Accession number

WA1933.22

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1933

Work type

Painting

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Southern German School

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