''The Martyrdom of St Sebastian'' is a 1505 fresco painting by

Perugino Pietro Perugino (, ; – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael was his most famous pupil. Ea ...

in the church of San Sebastiano in

Panicale Panicale is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria. Located on the eastern slope of Mount Petrarvella, in the southeast of Valdichiana, it overlooks Lake Trasimeno and it is about 35 km far from Pe ...

. It shows the martyrdom of

St Sebastian Saint Sebastian (in Latin: ''Sebastianus''; Narbo, Gallia Narbonensis, Roman Empire c. AD 255 – Rome, Italia, Roman Empire c. AD 288) was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocle ...

in an ancient Roman setting, with God the Father in a tondo above.Vittoria Garibaldi, Perugino, in ''Pittori del Rinascimento'', Scala, Florence, 2004 (Italian) ()

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