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Josse Lieferinxe: Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken  wikidata:Q18748977 reasonator:Q18748977
Artist
Josse Lieferinxe  (–1508)  wikidata:Q1534936
 
Alternative names

Josse Lieferinx
Josse Liefrinck
Josse Lifferin


Master of St. Sebastian
Description French painter
Date of birth/death 15th century
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
 Edit this at Wikidata		 1508 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Enghien Marseille
Work period 1483-1508
Work location
Hainaut, Marseille (1493)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q1534936
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: St. Sebastian was a Roman military officer martyred about AD 300 by being shot full of arrows and then clubbed to death. He was prayed to for protection against the plague. This painting depicts one instance of his intercession. According to legend, this event occurred long after the saint's death, during an outbreak of the plague in 7th-century Pavia, Italy. Here, just as a victim is to be buried, a grave attendant is struck by the disease. The plague-or Black Death-devastated Europe for centuries, and the painting's viewers would have known its horrors. St. Sebastian, pierced with arrows, kneels before God to plead on behalf of humanity, while an angel and a demon battle in the sky. The artist was never in Italy and based the appearance of Pavia on that of Avignon.

In 1497, Lieferinxe contracted with the Confraternity of St. Sebastian to paint an altarpiece dedicated to their patron saint in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Accoules (now destroyed) in Marseille, France. Six other panels from this altarpiece are now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Johnson Collection), the Museo di Palazo Venezia in Rome, and the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

See the recent article Katz, Melissa R. "Preventative Medicine: Josse Lieferinxe's Retable Altar of St. Sebastian as a Defense Against Plague in 15th Century Provence." Interfaces 26 (2006-7): 59-82.
Depicted people Saint Sebastian Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1497 and 1499
date QS:P571,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1499-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
(Renaissance
era QS:P2348,Q4692
)
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q287,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 81.8 cm (32.2 in); width: 55.4 cm (21.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,81.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,55.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.1995
Place of creation Provence, France
Object history
  • Francis Egerton, Earl of Elsmere, by purchase
  • David M. Koetser, New York and London, by purchase
  • Walters Art Museum, 1945, by purchase
Exhibition history Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987. Vive la France! French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1999-2000.
Credit line Museum purchase, 1945
References Walters Art Museum artwork ID: 6193 Edit this at Wikidata
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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Saint Sebastian, a martyr saint of plague, is shown in the sky while an outbreak of plague occurs in the city below.

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