An LGBT organization has put on a display at the York Art Gallery in England that includes a perverse interpretation of a painting of St. Agatha by Bernardo Cavallino (1616-1656). “St Agatha is usually shown with her severed breasts on a plate to represent her martyrdom,” reads a placard attached to the painting. “Artwork of saints like this speaks to the queer experience of pushing against social norms to live euphorically as ourselves.”
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