Saint Sebastian van Honthorst, Luca Signorelli, El Greco, Honoré Daumier, John Singer Sargent and Louise Bourgeois all painted Saint Sebastians. An early work by the sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini is of Saint Sebastian. The saint is ordinarily depicted as a handsome youth pierced by arrows. Predella scenes when required, often depicted his arrest, confrontation with the Emperor, and final beheading. The illustration in the infobox is the "Saint Sebastian" of Il Sodoma, at the Pitti Palace, Florence. A mainly 17th-century subject, though found in predella scenes as early as the 15th century, was "Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene" (St Irene), painted by
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