
Absolute Acceptance: Jusepe de Ribera’s The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew (1634) Gallery Label
Jusepe de Ribera’s The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew (1634) Gallery Label
The Eroticized Austerity of the Male Body: Sebastiane (1976), Caravaggio, and El Greco
The martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, a staple homoerotic subject in seventeenth-century European art, is revisited by Paul Humfress and Derek Jarman, a director at the forefront of experimental arthouse British cinema during the late twentieth century.