#st. sebastian

[casmortis]

Based off of Francesco Cairo’s painting of St. Irene tending to St. Sebastian.

[yoursghouly]

𝔱𝔦𝔱𝔩𝔢: “Photography of St. Sebastian’s Cathedral” 𝔟𝓎 Klim Musalimov // 𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫: b+w

[internetcatholicism]

Running my first half marathon in about an hour. Pray for me!

[and-her-saints]

St. Sebastian by me! (andhersaints)

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Sebastian and a Bishop Saint, Master of the Virgo inter Virgines (active at Delft ca. 1480-1495)

[franzkafkagf]

game of thrones / big thief / giovanni antonio bazzi

[murheissaan]

Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian for Esquire, 1968

[deadnightmeat]

✟ ℭ𝔥𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢 𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔦𝔰𝔬𝔫 ✟

[simonangelart]

Pure-Being - Simon Angel

Digital, 2022

[casmortis]

[saintedseb]

St. Sebastien (1931) - Serge Ivanoff (Russian/French, 1893-1983)

[whatawonderfulpuddle]

Elden Ring (FromSoftware, 2022)

St. Sebastian (detail) (Andrea Montegna, 1480)

[graaid]

"St. Sebastian, He/Him"

(I forgot to upload this as it's own post lol)

[aubelisk-arts]

Sebastian in the Garden of the Tulips

[lastwordsofdutchschultz]

"I was particularly enchanted by the photogravures of Grecian sculptures in the guidebooks to various Italian museums. When it came to depictions of the nude, among the many reproductions of masterpieces, it was these plates, in black and white, that best suited my fancy. This was probably due to the simple fact that, even in reproductions, the sculpture seemed the more lifelike."

"I began turning a page toward the end of a volume. Suddenly there came into view from one corner of the next page a picture that I had to believe had been lying in wait there for me, for my sake."

"The black and slightly oblique trunk of the tree of execution was seen against a Titian-like background of gloomy forest and evening sky, sombre and distant."

"A remarkably handsome youth was bound naked to the trunk of the tree. His crossed hands were raised high, and the thongs binding his wrists were tied to the tree. No other bonds were visible, and the only covering for the youth's nakedness was a coarse white cloth knotted loosely about his loins."

"even this painting of the death of a Christian saint has about it a strong flavour of paganism."

"The youth's body - it might even be likened to that of Antoninus, beloved of Hadrian, whose beauty has been so often immortalized in sculpture - shows none of the traces of missionary hardship or decrepitude that are to be found in depictions of other saints; instead, there is only the springtime of youth, only light and beauty and pleasure."

"The arrows have eaten into the tense, fragrant, youthful flesh and are about to consume his body from within with flames of supreme agony and ecstasy. But there is no flowing blood, nor yet the host of arrows seen in other pictures of Sebastian's martyrdom."

“tranquil and graceful shadows upon the smoothness of his skin, like the shadows of a bough falling upon a marble stairway.”

[Yukio Mishima, confessions of a mask]

[Yukio Mishima, self-portrait as st. Sebastian]

[F. Holland Day, 3 photographs]

[Guido Reni, st. Sebastian]

[Egon Schiele, self-portrait as st. Sebastian]

[Robert Demache, toucques valley]

[fluffbyday-smutbynight]

Please have some original content for my "suggestive catholic art" segment: the delightful St. Sebastian at the St. Agnes Church in Piazza Navona, Rome