Pavane 24

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18/31 [ The Wolf ] • For sale • #inktober #inktober2017

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#inktober 01/31 [ Habibi ] Hasan Al-Abdallah. ♥ #inktober2016

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Today's NASA APOD: Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain

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Suisse by Mario. H. ”Ancienne porte”

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Virgilio Marchi Visione della citta’ futurista 1914

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Gold wreath with detached stem including leaves and berries

Greek, Hellenistic Period, 300-100 B.C.

Getty Museum

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Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence - Italy

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Venice - Italy

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Palazzo Erizzo Nani Mocenigo, Venice - Italy

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Tilt-Back Lounge Chair. Charles and Ray Eames - circa 1944.

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Guido Reno- St Sebastian (Genoa)

Yukio Mishima- Confessions of a mask

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For those of you who don’t know, Saint Sebastian is closely associated with homosexuality.

The reason for this is that in 1525, a renaissance artist named Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (aka Il Sodoma, which is exactly how it sounds) was commissioned to create a St Sebastian and painted him as young, well shaped and handsome whilst enduring his martyrdom. Most St Sebastians since have kind of followed his lead.

Infamous Japanese author Yukio Mishima famously cites another famous (and similarly beautiful) St Sebastian by Guido Renis as being an important part of his queer awakening of the main character in 1949s Glass Mask (which is probably the most likely way that Aoike Yasuko learned about the connection).

Queer history is really incredibly important. I thoroughly recommend checking out the various takes on St Sebastian through the years and see how the themes and the artwork he inspires has created a remarkable space for artists trying to express queer desire in the midst of religion, shame, the portrayal of pain and the juxtaposition of ecstacy.

It’s just a little thing, but it’s a very important little thing and I’m really glad that Aoike Yasuko tossed it in!

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Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (Battistello) / "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" / ab. 1625 / Fogg Museum at the Harvard Art Museums

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Fiorenzo di Lorenzo - Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saint Christopher and Saint Sebastian. Detail. 1498 - 1525