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ST. SEBASTIANA WOUNDED BY LOVE
DIMENSIONS
98x142cm
TECHNIQUE AND SUPPORT
oil on canvas
YEAR
2008
PROJECT
The painting is part of the cycle “Le Sante Sospese”
(The Pending Sante)
We are inside the evocative architectural space of the Medina of Cordoba, later reconverted and consecrated as a Catholic church after the Reconquest of Isabella and Philip.
All the iconic elements are there; a naked body, a column, the arrows, the halo: these are typical of St. Sebastian. Except that the body suspended in "bondage" from the column is that of a beautiful woman whose agony, somewhere between ecstatic and orgasmic, is caused not by the arrows of cruel executioners, but by those fiery ones of love and passion thrown by a cheerful Cupid! Taken as needed directly from the Loggia of Cupid and Psyche at the Farnesina, frescoed by Raphael's workshop. S.B.
