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| Keywords: Josse Lieferinxe - Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken - Walters 371995.jpg St Sebastian was a Roman military officer martyred about AD 300 by being shot full of arrows and then clubbed to death He was prayed to for protection against the plague This painting depicts one instance of his intercession According to legend this event occurred long after the saint's death during an outbreak of the plague in 7th-century Pavia Italy Here just as a victim is to be buried a grave attendant is struck by the disease The plague-or Black Death-devastated Europe for centuries and the painting's viewers would have known its horrors St Sebastian pierced with arrows kneels before God to plead on behalf of humanity while an angel and a demon battle in the sky The artist was never in Italy and based the appearance of Pavia on that of Avignon In 1497 Lieferinxe contracted with the Confraternity of St Sebastian to paint an altarpiece dedicated to their patron saint in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Accoules now destroyed in Marseille France Six other panels from this altarpiece are now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Johnson Collection the Museo di Palazo Venezia in Rome and the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg See the recent article Katz Melissa R Preventative Medicine Josse Lieferinxe's Retable Altar of St Sebastian as a Defense Against Plague in 15th Century Provence Interfaces 26 2006-7 59-82 between 1497 1499 Renaissance oil wood cm 81 8 55 4 accession number 37 1995 6193 Francis Egerton Earl of Elsmere by purchase David M Koetser New York and London by purchase Walters Art Museum 1945 by purchase Museum purchase 1945 Death and Dying in the Middle Ages The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 place of origin Provence France Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Josse Lieferinxe Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings of Saint Sebastian Christian burials in art Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
