Michael Parth
Saint Sebastian (?)
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the sculpture
This figure of a male saint must once have formed part of the central part (also known as corpus or shrine) of an altarpiece. Both his hands are later repleacements, but they may imitate the position of the original ones, and would probably have held the saint's attributes. The figure could, for example, have held an arrow and a palm-twig, like the figure of St Sebastian in an altarpiece of about 1515 in the chapel of Gossensass/Colle Isarco in the Tyrol.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 752-1895
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 6 days ago
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
