medieval:

St. Sergius and St. Bacchus

When same sex marriage was a Christian rite.

Adelphopoiesis, or adelphopoiia from the Greek ἀδελφοποίησις, derived from ἀδελφός (adelphos) “brother” and ποιέω (poieō) “I make”, literally “brother-making” is a ceremony practiced at one time by various Christian churches to unite together two people of the same sex (normally men).

EDIT:  There is some opposition to the theory.

medieval:

Saint Jordi fresco in San Zeno. 13th C.

uglyrenaissancebabies:

Domenichino, St. John the Evangelist

Oh, just buy a fucking table, you shrew.

triglifos-y-metopas:

Icon of Saint George. 

Pskov, Russia.

14th century A.D.

[British Museum]

medieval:

BARONZIO, Giovanni
St Colomba Saved by a Bear (detail), 1340s
Tempera on wood, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

medieval:

BARONZIO, Giovanni
Scenes from the Life of St Colomba: Beheading of St Colomba
1340s
Tempera on wood, 53 x 55 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

centuriespast:

St. Francis Supported by an Angel

• about 1600
• Orazio Gentileschi, Italian, 1563–1639
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston

cavetocanvas:

Fra Angelico, Christ in Majesty, St. Brizio Chapel,1447

centuriespast:

CORNELISZ VAN OOSTSANEN, Jacob

(b. ca. 1472, Oostzan, d. 1533, Amsterdam)

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen as a Gardener
1507
Oil on oak, 55 x 39 cm
Staatliche Museen, Kassel

uglyrenaissancebabies:

The Lactation of St. Bernard

Mary seriously needs to work on her aim, though Shrunken Head Christ certainly isn’t helping.