# St Sebastian [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FOPPA, Vincenzo]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Fresco transferred to canvas, 265 x 170 cm ## Commentary St Sebastian c. 1489 Fresco transferred to canvas, 265 x 170 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan In its original position in a chapel in Santa Maria di Brera, this fresco had greater visual impact, with the archers appearing illusionistically before the spectator as if they had come out from behind the wall. For this reason the painting was admired and praised by art historians beginning with Lomazzo in the sixteenth century. Today the work appears somewhat laboured, the figures anatomically and physiognomically overdone, and the broad composition perhaps a little vacuous. One can, of course, still admire the technique and the masterly use of light, which defines the forms and gives them a silvery cast. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Christ Child]() - [Altarpiece]() - [Bottigella Altarpiece]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Madonna and Child with an Angel]() - [Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist]() - [Madonna of the Book]() - [Miracle of the Cloud and Miracle of the False Madonna]() - [Miracle of the False Madonna]() - [Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman]() - [Portrait of Giovanni Francesco Brivio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()