# St Sebastian Cared for by the Pious Women

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## Artwork

- Artist: [STROZZI, Bernardo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/strozzi-bernardo-rf2902d3a533cf6>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas

## Commentary

In Venice, Bernardo Strozzi built a superb reputation for himself as a portrait painter with a profound capacity for physical and psychological characterization and as a painter of religious subjects. An excellent example of his interpretation of a religious theme is St Sebastian Cared for by the Pious Women. It was painted for the church of San Benedetto; its exaggeratedly refined monumental construction is relaxed by the dynamic Baroque rhythm and atmospheric luminosity of the melodramatic evocation of the face of the saint and the still-life vignettes.

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## Attribution

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