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Expandable views of pope St. Fabian's election and of St. Sebastian's martyrdom as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of Jacopo da Varazze's _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fols. 22r and 22v, respectively):
http://tinyurl.com/4nprmsv
http://tinyurl.com/4es9nzw
A few further depictions of Sebastian, starting with a new link for S.'s probably late seventh-century mosaic portrait in Rome's San Pietro in Vincoli:
http://bode.diee.unica.it/~giua/SEBASTIAN/PICS/vincoli.jpg
S. as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the nave of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/2vuft58
S. as depicted in a late fifteenth-century silver gilt reliquary from Augsburg now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/4447-popup.html
Best,
John Dillon
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