This painting, by Antonia Pollaiuolo, depicts the story of Saint Sebastian who was sentenced to death for being a Christian. Apart from his use of one point perspective, Pollaiuolo uses both a tonal gradient and figure-stances to create a sense of volume in the work. The tonal variance is used such that warmer colours are used in the foreground and cooler colours in the background. This draws the eye to the lower centre of the painting. With regard to figure stances, the 6 archers have three different poses - each pose having been rotated around once. This emphasizes the 3 dimensional quality of each archer.
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