Andrea Mantegna, St. Sebastian (c. 1456 - 1459), tempera on panel, 30 x 68 cm. Collection of Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Via Wikimedia Commons.
The twice-martyred St. Sebastian is depicted in our new manuscripts exhibition Miracles and Martyrs as calmly accepting his fate (even while punctured by 8 arrows). Compared to Mantegna’s famed rendition, which emanates human pain and suffering, this medieval Sebastian seems totally unfazed.
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, about 1466-1470, Master of Jacques of Luxembourg.The J. Paul Getty Museum
Tom Wudl created a work inspired by Mantegna’s St. Sebastian, which was shown in our 2011 group exhibition “Loose Canon.”
Tom Wudl
Henry Flower, A.K.A. Leopold Bloom in Nighttown, 2007
pencil, acrylic, oil and gold leaf on paper
Paper: 71 x 46 1/2 in. (180.3 x 118.1 cm)
Framed: 75 1/4 x 50 3/4 in. (191.1 x 128.9 cm)
Signed & Dated Lower Right
Inv# TW07-5
