# A Saint Sebastian panel is completed about 1474 for Medici-neighbourhood devotion as received

Date: 1474

## The fact

Britannica and Met survey independently include early saint panels such as Sebastian in the 1470s file.

It is one event.

## Context

A martyr panel for civic/Medici devotion is a knowledge-and-devotion path. Shared display contexts remain.

[Sandro Botticelli](/people/sandro-botticelli)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Berlin holds a Botticelli St Sebastian dated by catalogues to the mid-1470s; some handbooks link a Medici display date around 1474. Later museum holding is carrier.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica — Sandro Botticelli and Met Heilbrunn — Botticelli independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Sandro Botticelli (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandro-Botticelli; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

St Sebastian is a knowledge-access path of medium confidence on exact display day, high on the work’s place in the early oeuvre.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Sandro Botticelli.

They are not a public rating.

Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Berlin ticket is not 1474 type. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Sandro Botticelli.
Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Berlin ticket is not 1474 type. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Sandro Botticelli.

## People

- Sandro Botticelli: https://factrail.ai/people/sandro-botticelli

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bott/hd_bott.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandro-Botticelli

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-st-sebastian