Pietro TaccaItalian, 1577–1640Sebastiaan
May one see it?
Unknown
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
All traces of the arrows that, according to legend, pierced the martyr Sebastian are missing here. The drama of this scultpre is concentrated entirely in the pose of the sensual, idealized nude body. The tormented Sebastian has lost consciousness and hangs limply against the trunk of the tree to which he is bound by one wrist.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- BK-1961-59
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
