Saint Sebastian, Mantegna (Wikipedia)

The English Wikipedia article on Andrea Mantegna's three paintings of Saint Sebastian, covering the Vienna, Louvre and Ca' d'Oro versions. For the Louvre painting, dated to about 1480, the article records a history in the Altar of San Zeno in Verona and, by the late 17th to early 18th centuries, a presence at the Sainte Chapelle of Aigueperse in France, connected to the 1486 marriage of Chiara Gonzaga to Gilbert de Bourbon. It describes Sebastian tied to a classical arch, viewed from an unusually low perspective that Mantegna used to lend the figure solidity and dominance, his head and eyes turned toward Heaven, two archers at his feet representing worldly iniquity, and the painter's characteristic accuracy in rendering ancient ruins, including a fig tree growing beside the column.