
可否一睹真容?
倫敦, 英国
仍属馆藏,只是目前没有展出。
This statue in walnut represents St Sebastian and its style suggests the Lombard region as its origin.
The legend goes that Saint Sebastian served in the imperial army of Diocletian as one of the latter's favourites. But when it was revealed that he was a Christian, Diocletian let him be tied to a tree and he was shot with arrows and left there to die. When a widow called Irene came to bury him, she discovered that no arrow had touched any vital parts of the body and she could heal him back to health. Sebastian then again confronted himself before Diocletian with his sins and was then beaten to death.
In this statue there are no arrows.
维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆