St Roch

The statue of St Roch is on the left side of the altar in the church of San Salvador.

Sculptures of St Roch and St Sebastian stand to each side of the Luganegheri altar in the church of San Salvador. Both saints were venerated in Venice as protectors from the plague, and are often paired in Venetian art. Of particular interest is the figure of Saint Sebastian; the pathos communicated by the pained face and struggling figure of Sebastian recalls the great sources for such figures in the late Renaissance: the Laoco�n, the Dying Alexander, both works from late antiquity, and a more recent exemplum doloris (model of suffering), the Dying Slave, by Michelangelo.