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 *ziata, Florence; sold to National Gallery in 1857 by Marchese Pucci. The saint is a portrait of Gino di Lodovico Capponi. A fine work, but praised to exaggeration by Vasari.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 292; C. & C., Italy, ii. 392; Richa, Chiese, viii. 54; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Richter, 32.

By Théodule Ribot, Luxembourg Museum, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 2 in. × 4 ft. 3 in. The saint extended, in front; beside him, Irene and another woman are trying to stanch the blood which flows from his wounds. In manner of Caravaggio. Salon, 1865; bought by State for 6,000 francs.—Larousse, xiv. 445.

St. Sebastian, Antonio Pollajuolo, National Gallery, London.

By Rubens, Berlin Museum; canvas, life-size. Painted in Italy about 1606. Formerly in Munro Collection, England; acquired in 1884 for £101.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 136.

By Il Sodoma, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, figure life-size. The saint, pierced with arrows, 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 Madonna in Clouds, with SS. Gismondo and Roch and three Flagellants beneath. Painted in 1525 for the brotherhood of St. Sebastian in Camollia, 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, Künst. Lex., iii. 225; Lasinio, i. Pl. 72.

By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, in narrow interval between two windows. The saint fastened to a tree, with the arrows in his body. "The most majestic 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; canvas stretched on panel, life-size. The saint, with hands bound behind his back, one arrow 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 original 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 Niccolò.

By Paolo Veronese, S. Sebastiano, Venice; canvas. The saint, in armour, and standing with a banner in his hand at the top of a flight of stairs, exhorts his companions, Marcus and Marcellinus, who are surrounded by weeping friends, to confess their faith.—Zanotto, 428; Larousse, xiv. 445.

Subject treated also by Garofalo, Montpellier Museum; Bartolommeo Schidone, Naples Museum; Denis Calvaert, Caen Museum; Luca Giordano, Dresden Museum; Antonello da Messina, Dresden Gallery,