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Saint Sebastian (Preti)

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29: 165:, but here they find the apex of realization for their quality and style. Unlike the two paintings of San Domenico Soriano, where the first sees a luministic effect dominated by the yellow color scheme, and the second by a red one, in this work, which is chronologically slightly later, there is a prevalence of the silvery gray hue, a detail also found in the immediately following works to this, like the 136:
Embittered by the incident, Preti handed his canvas to a nobleman who placed it in the family's private chapel, inside the church, today Basilica, of Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori, in Naples, where it remained on view until 1974 (the nobleman affirmed that the painting could thus be "the school of
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in 1913 defined the work as a "masterpiece of an isolated figure", highlighting precisely the particular construction of the scene: "(...) I do not know a single figure where the construction created by the seventeenth century is expressed with greater clarity and success ".
157:. The pose of Saint Sebastian emphasizes the Pretian style of the figures taken foreshortened, in transversal projection, to give more momentum and depth to the composition, elements already adopted in previous works such as his 457: 133:, who considered the representation of the saint devoid of the nobility and beauty that distinguishes him in classical iconography, the work was removed from the chapel where it was located. 417: 377: 520: 337: 137:
young people who want to profit from a perfect drawing, and an excellent natural."). The same year the work was transferred, for security reasons, to the
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influence, depicts the saint tied to a pole and pierced by arrows, following the death sentence inflicted on him as a Christian by emperor
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in Naples, during Preti first stay at the city. Following criticism and pressure from the artists of the Neapolitan environment, above all
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240 cm × 169 cm (94 in × 67 in)
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St John the Baptist Wearing the Red Tabard of the Order of St John
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Mattia Preti
National Museum of Capodimonte
Naples
Mattia Preti
Saint Sebastian
National Museum of Capodimonte
Naples
San Sebastiano, Naples
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Luca Giordano
National Museum of Capodimonte
Caravaggesque
Diocletian
Royal Palace of Naples
Roberto Longhi
"Saint Sebastian"
"St Sebastian by PRETI, Mattia"






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Saint Anthony Abbot
Aeneas Fleeing Troy

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