Saint Sebastian (Ribera, Naples)

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Saint Sebastian is a 1651 oil on canvas painting by Jusepe de Ribera. With Saint Bruno Receiving the Rule and Saint Jerome , it is one of three works commissioned from him for the private quarters of the prior of the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, where they still hang. [1] A work of his second maturity, it is a second version of a 1636 work now in Madrid. [2]

References

  1. ↑ (in Italian) N. Spinosa, Ribera. L'opera completa, Napoli, Electa, 2003.
  2. ↑ (in Italian) N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, collana Classici dell'arte Rizzoli, Milano, Rizzoli Editore, 1978, p. 124.
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