Mattia preti's san sebastiano, created between 1653 and 1656, is a painting (oil on canvas, 240 x 169 cm) exhibited in naples in the capodimonte museum (inv. S. N. ), in the neapolitan gallery. The painting, carried out on behalf of the nuns for the church of san sebastiano in naples, following criticism and strong pressure, was finally removed and taken to the private chapel of a noble family inside the church of santa maria dei sette dolori (to which the painting still belongs), where it remained until 1974, the year in which the canvas was transferred to the capodimonte museum for security reasons. Dating to the beginning of his neapolitan stay, around 1657, the canvas reveals the study of caravaggio's lesson, especially of the light that allows solid, plastically shaped bodies to emerge from the shadow, but pictorially enhanced by the use of silvery-grey tones. The transversal foreshortening gives the composition, together with the definition of the luminous planes, power and dynamism. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: circa 1660. Dimensions: height: 240 cm (94.4 in) ; width: 169 cm (66.5 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Saint Sebastian. Collection: National Museum of Capodimonte. St Sebastian c1660 Mattia Preti
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