gender: martyrdom

francis | 23 | he/they | melancholic | aspiring stigmatic art history, medievalism, and being weird about god

[cephalophor]

The Martyrdom of St Sebastian / Guillaume Ménageot (Detail) 

[pspsappho]

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

[uhhhhmanda]

Zendaya’s The Odyssey premiere earrings spark ethics row

The earrings, worn by Zendaya at The Odyssey press tour, are believed to be 2,000-3,000 years old and come at a time when the US is bombing

An archaeologist quoted in the article says "the point of these earrings is not to showcase legitimate ancient artistry, it is to fetishize the past, to be a commodity, stolen from the elite, circulated illegally, and immorally…this is about class signalling."

[saint-sebastians-abs]

can you save me

[saint-sebastians-abs]

ohhhhhhh my god

[saint-sebastians-abs]

im going to the catacombs and basilica of st sebastian tomorrow you wish you were me

[saint-sebastians-abs]

but first ☝️ i have a hot date with pietro cavallini

[centuriespast]

DUCCIO di Buoninsegna Maestà (detail) 1308-11 Tempera on wood Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

[saint-sebastians-abs]

im going to the catacombs and basilica of st sebastian tomorrow you wish you were me

[coralbonesandpearlsforeyes]

Tried something

[vichugos]

Arrest of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane (The kiss of Judas). 118x133, oil on canvas

This is my diploma painting for my college, I got A for this :)

[lilithsplace]

Drawing of the martyred Saint Sebastian by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Long-lost Da Vinci work stirs art world (valued at $22.6 million)

[lovely-v]

Saint Sebastian in Rome

[zooophagous]

The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (also known as Dead Christ) by Hans Holbein, painted somewhere about 1520-22

Hans Holbein had a taste for the macabre and this extended to even his religious iconography. We see here the form of Christ in early stages of decay, already starting to contort and discolor, the way all corpses do, even the corpse of a 'perfect' being.

This piece is 300cm or 6.5 feet long, making it approximately life sized, and the framing of the piece invokes the feeling of entering a crypt or mausoleum and seeing the dead resting on a recessed shelf in the wall.

Dostoevsky, the Russian author, is said to have been so overcome by seeing the panel in person that he started having epileptic symptoms and had to be removed from the gallery by his wife. He is quoted by Wikipedia as commenting "One can lose his faith from a painting like that."

[dizzyghoast]

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias

[commiepinkofag]

Piss Christ, Andres Serrano, 1987

[ararebloom]

Piero della Francesca, Saint Michael, 1469 (details)

[saint-sebastians-abs]

we have GOT to start sexualizing the tonsure

[saint-sebastians-abs]

sodomy is such a beautiful word i love sodomy and sodomites #mysodomites