Are there hot mostly naked sculptures of saints or has Christianity pretty much conceded all the sexiness to the bad guys?
Are there hot mostly naked sculptures of saints or has Christianity pretty much conceded all the sexiness to the bad guys?
St. Sebastian, martyr and gay icon.
http://goo.gl/BeBOk
Depends on how hot you think David and his micropenis are.
Oh, my. I might have to make St. Sebastian the patron saint of this blog, unless they uncover (heh) some more interesting iconography of St. Thecla. In related news, today is his feast day in the Greek church, according to Wikipedia.
There’s a Tumblr for that: http://necspenecmetu.tumblr.com/ Granted it’s all art, but the number of sexy Jesuses that show up is amusing. Especially if you look at the poster’s tags.
Well, one of the later popes had all those fig leafs painted all over the figures in MichelAngelos ‘Last Judgment’ in the Sistine, and many previous popes before had their dicks chiseled off of even ancient Greek statues from where they took their inspiration, replacing them with the leafs. Thank you, Renaissance Art History class!
Sexy Jesus has a six-pack in almost every painting/sculpture I’ve ever seen of him as an adult. NOW I want B to relate this to Sexy Satan!
Does it have to be sculpture? There’s the painting of Adam on the Sistine ceiling, of which Yeats wrote:
“Where, but half-awakened, Adam
Can disturb globe-trotting madam
Till her bowels are in heat.”
Yeats thought this was a Good Thing.
Peg, I’m more concerned about all the pictures at that tumblr crackerjackheart linked to that show Thomas suggestively sliding his fingers into Jesus’ wound!
I’m still bemused by thinking of a mashup of Richard Kadrey’s Devil with statue #2. I may not come up for air for a bit.