Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene Sebastian as a mature if not elderly man. But almost invariably artists continued to show the saint as a young man, rather sensuously depicted, and with as little clothing as in the earlier paintings. Irene, the widow of a mature martyr in her legend, also tends to be painted as young and beautiful. The subject, especially in the depictions where Sebastian has been got clear of his post or tree, has clear similarities to two other scenes from secular Italian epic romances: Angelica and Medoro from "Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto (1516) and Erminia and Tancredi from "Gerusalemme liberata" by
Three Arrows circle and the symbolism changed to represent the unity of industrial workers, farm workers and intellectuals. The Three Arrows symbol remained a prominent Social Democratic Party of Austria symbol until the 1950s. The Three Arrows remained the symbol of the French socialists until the 1970s, when it was substituted by the fist and rose symbol. Three Arrows The Three Arrows () is a social-democratic political symbol. The symbol emerged in Weimar Germany in the midst of the political crisis that preceded the Nazis takeover in 1933. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) was challenged by both the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and