Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene is an incident in the lives of Saint Sebastian and Saint Irene of Rome. It was not prominent in the hagiographical literature until the late Renaissance, and is hardly seen in art before then. As an artistic subject, normally in painting, it suddenly became popular from the 1610s, though found in predella scenes as early as the 15th century, and was most popular until about the 1670s. Though Sebastian is famously tied to a tree or post and shot with many arrows, in his story he had he
Three Arrows 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 the Communist Party (KPD). In this setting, the SDP organizer Carlo Mierendorf recruited Russian exiled physiologist Sergei Chakhotin as the propagandist of the paramilitary Iron Front and together the two developed propaganda initiatives to counter the NSDAP and the KPD in early 1932. Together, the two launched the Three Arrows as a symbol for the