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

12 comments:

Göran Koch-Swahne said...

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

Counterlight said...

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

it's margaret said...

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

Lapinbizarre said...
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Lapinbizarre said...

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

Counterlight said...

"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.

Lapinbizarre said...

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.

JCF said...

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

[Religious, not so much...]

Counterlight said...

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

Counterlight said...

JCF,

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

Göran Koch-Swahne said...

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

Lapinbizarre said...

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.