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Saint Sebastian Released by Irene and her Servant
c. 1620–1625 · oil paint, canvas · Museum voor Schone Kunsten (MSK), Ghent
For Saints Fabian and Sebastian · 20 January
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Saint Sebastian lifts his eyes, and the arrows are still in him. Hands work at the ropes, at his wrist and high on the post. Melchior de la Mars gave his limbs a sickly, greenish cast; the MSK Ghent reads the discoloured skin and the hint of a convulsion as symptoms of plague, painted in the 1620s, when outbreaks struck Europe and Ghent more than once, the saint invoked against it. Lowie Vercruysse and colleagues found green earth mixed into the flesh paint. Irene, a Roman widow, came with her servant to release him, and the museum reads it as Christian charity. The same green earth went into Irene's sleeve.
Sources: MSK Gent, 'Saint Sebastian Released by the Roman Widow Irene and her Servant', inv. 2022-H, read 2026-09-24 · Lowie Vercruysse et al., 'New insights into the use of Naples yellow and green earth by Melchior de la Mars', npj Heritage Science 13 (2025), read 2026-09-24