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Photograph and interview with SueZie, 51, and Cheryl, 55, Valrico, a transgender woman who transitioned later in life, and her wife.

Drawing upon the European visual tradition of the idealized male nude St. Sebastian, Louise Bourgeois issued prints of her composition in several editions. Here she represents a voluptuous female form, without arms; arrows threaten to puncture her…

This work-one of the most important Northern Baroque paintings in the United States-is a strikingly sensitive vision of physical suffering. The third-century Saint Sebastian, shot with arrows by his fellow guardsmen for having converted to…

Lifelike-and nearly life-size-statues such as this arresting Saint Sebastian were prevalent in churches in Renaissance Italy. It is carved in inexpensive wood, which was more easily worked than marble or bronze, and allowed for an easy naturalism.…

Black Mouth Cur and Boxer mix

Christian imagery, especially the theatrically bloody martyrdoms that hang in Mexican churches, pervades Frida's iconography. Her house in Coyoacan displays a particularly gruesome Road to Calvary, in which the overemphasis on Christ's wounds seizes…