Attributes & Emblems
Saint Sebastian's Arrows and the Plague Saints
Sebastian bound and pierced, and Roch showing his wound — the two saints a city prayed to when plague arrived.
14 paintings of saints, dated 1475–1875. Painters with the most works here: Gustave Moreau (3), Camille Corot (2) and Guido Reni (2).
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The Martirydom of Saint SebastianAntonio del PollaioloFrom$350
Saint Sebastian in a LandscapeCamille CorotFrom$350
Saint SebastianCamille CorotFrom$350
Enthroned Madonna, Saint Jerome, and St. SebastianCarlo CrivelliFrom$350
The Apotheosis of Saint RochGiovanni Battista TiepoloFrom$350
Saint RochGuido ReniFrom$350
The Martyrdom of Saint SebastianGuido ReniFrom$350
Saint SebastianGustave MoreauFrom$350
Saint Sebastian and His ExecutionersGustave MoreauFrom$350
Saint Sebastian being Tended by Saintly WomenGustave MoreauFrom$350
Saint Sebastian Attended by Saint IreneJusepe de RiberaFrom$350
Altar polyptych of San Bartolomeo, Bergamo, main panel: Enthroned Madonna with Angels and Saints - Alexander of Bergamo, Barbara, Roch, DominicLorenzo LottoFrom$350
Enthroned Madonna with Angels and Saints, St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Augustine on the left, St. Sebastian and St. Anthony the Abbot on the rightLorenzo LottoFrom$350
Martyrdom of Saint SebastianPaolo VeroneseFrom$360
Sebastian, tied to a column and stuck with arrows, and Roch, lifting his tunic to show the sore on his thigh, are the two saints a city commissioned when plague arrived. The arrow was read as the disease striking from above, and Sebastian survived his; that survival is the reason he is on so many altarpieces in so many plague years. The images are votive before they are decorative — they were paid for in an emergency.