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Lot Essay
On retrouve le naturalisme abrupt et l’intensité émotionnelle de cette représentation de Saint Sébastien dans d'autres travaux de Christophe Daniel Schenck. Né dans une famille de sculpteurs possédant des ateliers dans le sud de l’Allemagne et le nord de la Suisse aux alentours du lac de Constance, Schenck est devenu un sculpteur important de l’imagerie religieuse durant la Contre-Réforme, une période de renouveau artistique durant laquelle les églises et les monastères étaient restaurés et redécorés. Il représentait fréquemment des figures et des scènes religieuses de souffrances et de pénitences.
The stark naturalism and heightened emotionalism of the present figure of Saint Sebastian is comparable to works by Christoph Daniel Schenck. Born to a family of sculptors who had shops in the area of southern Germany and northern Switzerland around Lake Constance, Schenck became an important sculptor of religious imagery during the Counter-Reformation, a period of renewed artistic activity when churches and monasteries were being restored and redecorated. He frequently treated religious scenes of suffering and penitence in his work.
The stark naturalism and heightened emotionalism of the present figure of Saint Sebastian is comparable to works by Christoph Daniel Schenck. Born to a family of sculptors who had shops in the area of southern Germany and northern Switzerland around Lake Constance, Schenck became an important sculptor of religious imagery during the Counter-Reformation, a period of renewed artistic activity when churches and monasteries were being restored and redecorated. He frequently treated religious scenes of suffering and penitence in his work.