tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post611435374338081621..comments2024-03-28T10:37:38.851-11:00Comments on Intelliblog: ST SEBASTIAN AND ST AGNESIntellibloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262938291462934103noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post-65061938556264364442012-01-19T18:54:37.509-11:002012-01-19T18:54:37.509-11:00well look at that - another owl!
John Keat's ...well look at that - another owl!<br /><br />John Keat's poem, The Eve of St Agnes starts like this...<br /><br /><i>St Agnes' Eve---Ah, bitter chill it was!<br /><br />The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;</i>Kelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425317942978557478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post-85705604158197309662012-01-19T12:15:29.416-11:002012-01-19T12:15:29.416-11:00I have seen many painterly, monumental versions of...I have seen many painterly, monumental versions of the St Sebastian story, particularly by Pietro Perugino, Guido Reni and Paul Delaroche. But your version by Gerrit van Honthorst is probably the most powerful of all; almost Caravaggesque. <br /><br />One painter was somewhat less successful with St Sebastian, in my opinion, and that was El Greco.<br /><br />St Sebastian certainly was a young, handsome and athletic man. So it may have been a great opportunity for artists to depict an almost naked male body, with rippling peccs.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com