Saint Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima
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Saint Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima
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Saint Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima is a 1612 oil on canvas painting by Ludovico Carracci, now in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which acquired it in 1971. A preparatory drawing survives in the Louvre. It was commissioned by Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII, then papal legate in Bologna for a hypogeum under his chapel in the new church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, as evidenced in a contemporary letter. That chapel would be dedicated to Saint Sebastian and was built on the
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Painting by Agostino Carracci
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sebastian_Thrown_into_the_Cloaca_Maxima
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2023-06-19T07:53:13Z
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