# St Sebastian [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VITTORIA, Alessandro]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Vittoria carved several versions of the figure of St Sebastian. His earliest masterpiece in Venice was executed for the Montefeltro Chapel in the church of San Francesco della Vigna. Vittoria was attracted to the sculptures of Michelangelo. The first statue in which Vittoria employed motifs from Michelangelo is the St Sebastian on the altar in San Francesco della Vigna. His model was the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/giulio\_2/slave51.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/giulio\_2/slave51.html">Dying Slave</a> which was dispatched to France in 1544, and which he can have known only through a cast or statuette. His acquaintance with Michelangelo at this time was shallow, and this led him to modify, among many other features, the elevation of the left elbow and the position of the head. Oblivious of the weaknesses of this strange statue, Vittoria reproduced it twice as a bronze statuette. The statue is at the right of the Montefeltro Altar. ## Related artworks - [A Gentleman of the Zorzi Family]() - [A Lady of the Zorzi Family]() - [Altar and Altarpiece]() - [Altar of the Luganegheri]() - [Annunciation]() - [Atlante \(left of a pair\)]() - [Atlante \(right of a pair\)]() - [Bust of a Man]() - [Bust of Domenico Duodo]() - [Bust of Francesco Duodo]() - [Bust of Gerolamo Grimani]() - [Bust of Giovanni Battista Ferretti]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()