Saint Sebastian

Saint Sebastian by Daniel Barkley

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… Guido Reni's Saint Sebastian from the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa. It was a photo of this painting, showing a youth with his arms bound above his head and tied to a tree, gazing heavenwards with large watery eyes, naked but for a loosely tied loincloth and pierced with three arrows, which so aroused the 12-year-old hero of Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask, prompting his first ejaculation and initiating him into his "bad habit" of masturbation. http://www.johncoulthart.com