Resumen de L'immagine del "glorioso S.to Sebastiano di relevo": contributo "minore" allo studio della scultura meridionale in legno nei suoi rapporti continentali tra Cinque e Seicento
The author presents a group of unpublished or little known sculptures representing "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" made in Sicily in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, demostrating the vast circulation in the South of artists, works and models during that period. He underlines the importance of engravings for spreading the iconography of Saint Sebastian with arm raised and pathetic, twisted pose derived from works by major Italian and Northern artists. The article provides a useful list of names of local sculptors and a rich catalogue of works by known and anonymous artists, throwing light on a lesser known aspect of Sicilian artistic production and its realtionship to the mainland culture.
