Friday, July 3, 2009

Pictures for Cassock Wanking

Carlo Saraceni, St. Sebastian


Tiepolo, St. Agatha


Titian, Repentant Mary Magdalene


Guido Reni, St. Sebastian


Rubens, Sinners Saved By Penitence


Caravaggio, Young John the Baptist


Rene Lefevre, Mary Magdalene in the Cave
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12 comments:

  1. Göran Koch-SwahneJuly 4, 2009 at 12:01 AM

    "in the cave"??? Which gospel is that??

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  2. CounterlightJuly 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM

    Which gospel is any of these pictures? Maybe the Gospel of Fred.

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  3. it's margaretJuly 4, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    St. Agatha is my patron saint --actually, she is the patron saint of survivors of breast cancer....

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  4. LapinbizarreJuly 4, 2009 at 1:03 PM

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  5. LapinbizarreJuly 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    Wank?? St Agatha has just had her breasts hacked off, for Chr-st's sake!! Stunning painting tho'. Caravaggio's Baptist is seriously naughty.

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  6. CounterlightJuly 4, 2009 at 6:53 PM

    "Wank?? St Agatha has just had her breasts hacked off, for Chr-st's sake!!"

    In the painting in the previous post, her breasts are being torn off with iron pincers. Yes, I do think some people, maybe a lot of people, found that to be a turn on; just as much as a lot of people will pay $12 a head to see nubile teenagers torn apart in a slasher pic. Nothing sells movie tickets like sex and death together.

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  7. LapinbizarreJuly 5, 2009 at 11:10 PM

    Unusual late medieval miniature of a priest of Cybele noticed a couple of days back when I was checking into Caravaggio's John the Baptist, of which there are two versions.

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  8. JCFJuly 6, 2009 at 12:40 AM

    Good God, that Lefevre is gorgeous! :-D..

    [Religious, not so much...]

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  9. CounterlightJuly 6, 2009 at 6:39 AM

    Love the Priest of Cybele! Thanks Lapin. Caravaggio painted a lot of young Baptists in varying degrees of lasciviousness.

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  10. CounterlightJuly 6, 2009 at 6:41 AM

    JCF,

    I thought you might like it. I'm glad I found it.

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  11. Göran Koch-SwahneJuly 6, 2009 at 2:01 PM

    Sure it's a Priest of Cybele Lapin, not Origenes?

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  12. LapinbizarreJuly 6, 2009 at 2:32 PM

    It's from the Delftboys gay art site, Göran. It's a detail from this miniature. I'd say that the Cybele description is correct. There's another, related miniature here.

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