How did St Sebastian become a gay male icon?
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With the invention of the printing press came not only books, but artwork intended for mass production. The first major artist to use printmaking as his medium was the otherwise anonymous Master of the Playing Cards, who, true to his name, made his living creating beautifully elaborate engravings for playing cards.
Playing cards of the time featured religious and secular art, as well as, you know, nekkid ladies. The Master of the Playing Cards depicted St. Sebastian as an attractive male figure study in what could be interpreted by some as a seductive pose, inadvertently creating the first mass-market male pin-up in Renaissance Europe. Since then, a handsome St. Sebastian in coquettish poses has been done and done again by the later masters.
The linked wiki page has a copy of the scandalously salacious engraving, if you're into that sort of thing (Renaissance art and the history of mass media, I mean.)
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If you take sistine chapel - you have another artwork from a gay artist of this time. You should consider, about 30-50% of Catholic personnel were h*m*sexual, as today, due to the celibacy. You find h*m*erotic art in every 3rd church - I'm looking for it when I visit a church.
The 1500 Sebastian was a widely painted coverboy - I've seen about 8 paintings from this time in Dresden, one more dubious than the other. Yes, and I can differ just aesthetic art from erotic. You have a half naked Jesus in a church, which is no way erotic - and then a sebastian that is red hot.
And there is nothing bad about erotic art - in every time artists tried to find an excuse to paint half or completely nude women, even in church art.
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Have a look at Michael Angelo's sistine chapel and it will be found that the pose of Mr. Sebastian in most of its illustrations, complies with the artistic evaluation of the time, and the sistine chapel is a good example.
It was consider the movement of human anatomy in a continuity of lines or shapes, giving a feminine twist. The mentality of today has no business with the art. The fig leaves, come to memory. According to the information available at the time of the first image; 'he' was tied to a tree, for the execution.
The h*m*sexual connotations are a product of the 20's century,and the sexual preference of Mr. Sebastian, is pure speculation. [This is from a nonbeliever]
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