Male Beauty in Art

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hotguysinart:

Vaccaro, St Sebastian

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sweater-monster:

Titian, Saint Sebastian (from Polyptych of the Resurrection), 1520

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anguis218:

Saint Sebastian by Guido Reni

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romantisme1812:

Nicolas-Guy Brenet, Saint Sebastian (18th century).

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artandopinion:

St. Sebastian

1660

Mattia Preti

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stsebastian:

Carlo Dolci

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detail from Peter Paul Rubens’ Saint Sebastian,  c. 1614

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miaumiau:

Guido Reni
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
oil on canvas
146 x 113 cm
1616

“The youth’s body—it might even be likened to that of Antinous, 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. Instead, two lone arrows cast their 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

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igorsoldat:

Saint Sebastian by Roberto Ferri

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necspenecmetu:

Andrea Boscoli, Saint Sebastian, early 17th century