{"id":2847,"date":"2008-02-17T01:07:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T01:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2008-07-15T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T13:23:46","slug":"guido-renis-saint-sebastian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/17\/guido-renis-saint-sebastian\/","title":{"rendered":"Guido Reni’s Saint Sebastian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saint Sebastian by Guido Reni (c. 1616). <\/em><\/p>\n

The Agony and the Ecstasy<\/em> is an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery<\/a>, London, based around Guido Reni’s paintings of the martyr, six of which are on display.<\/p>\n

This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compare directly the six masterpieces which are coming from all over the world to join the St Sebastian owned by Dulwich Picture Gallery. The paintings are coming from New Zealand, South America, Madrid, Genoa and Rome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The claim for masterpieces is stretching the truth when art experts apparently believe that only two of the martyr paintings credited to Reni are original\u2014the Genoa picture above and the Dulwich’s own version<\/a>\u2014the rest being later copies. The Genoa version became a favourite of Oscar Wilde and it was a Sebastian by Guido Reni that also excited the illicit passion of the 12 year-old protagonist in Yukio Mishima’s novel Confessions of a Mask<\/em>. Wilde used the name Sebastian when he went into exile in Paris but he never took his identification with the saint as far as Mishima who adopted the typical pose in the famous photo taken shortly before the writer’s suicide. Wilde had no need of borrowed martyrdoms, his own was more than enough.<\/p>\n

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Yukio Mishima (1970).<\/em><\/p>\n

The Agony and the Ecstasy<\/em> runs until 11 May 2008. For further images of Saint Sebastian, this site<\/a> is as comprehensive as it gets.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Dorian Gray revisited<\/a>
\n\u2022 Beardsley\u2019s Salom\u00e9<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Takato Yamamoto<\/a>
\n\u2022 Alla Nazimova\u2019s Salom\u00e9<\/a>
\n\u2022 Fred Holland Day<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Poet and the Pope<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Picture of Dorian Gray I<\/a> & II<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saint Sebastian by Guido Reni (c. 1616). The Agony and the Ecstasy is an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, based around Guido Reni’s paintings of the martyr, six of which are on display. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compare directly the six masterpieces which are coming from all over the world … Continue reading “Guido Reni’s Saint Sebastian”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,5,44,12],"tags":[785,117,1187,4119,70,116,123,625],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-gay","category-painting","category-photography","tag-alla-nazimova","tag-dorian-gray","tag-fred-holland-day","tag-guido-reni","tag-madrid","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-salome","tag-yukio-mishima"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-JV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}