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Portrait of a boy as saint Sebastian

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Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

1490 · oil on panel

Dimensions (36 x 48 cm)

This piece had been considered as a work by Da Vinci up to the 19th century where it had been attributed to Boltraffio instead. The portrait has also be interpreted as an painting of St. Louis and also as a pupil or Leonardo Da Vinci however the arrow held the the left hand points towards St. Sebastian.

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About this artwork

Portrait of a boy as saint Sebastian (1490) by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, oil on panel.

About Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (or Beltraffio) (1466 or 1467 – 1516) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance from Lombardy, who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci. Boltraffio and Bernardino Luini are the strongest artistic personalities to emerge from Leonardo's studio.

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