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“Painting will not tolerate this, it would be against the decorum of the art”
The participants base their argumentation on the example of the figure of the “Sacrifice of Isaac” which is said to have moved Gregory of Nyssa to tears.
Conflict
Blood Capriccio Decorum Representation of bodies Mention
Fabriano, 1564
Subject
Christ ; Martyrdom ; Mysteries ; Passion ; St Blaise ; St James ; St Lawrence ; St Sebastian ; St Stephen 
How to represent St. Sebastian (and how not to do it)
Seville, window (stained glass) of the Puerta de Palos at the Cathedral of Seville
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1535Analysing how St. Sebastian should be painted, Pacheco condemned the painters who painted the saint as a young man, which should be depicted, instead, as an old man.
