The sublimely beautiful Nicola Giancola, a favourite model of F. Holland Day in the first decade of

The sublimely beautiful Nicola Giancola, a favourite model of F. Holland Day in the first decade of the 20th century - it is not difficult to see why this boy in his early 20s was so frequently photographed by the man who plucked him from obscurity - not only his sensual, timeless beauty but the emotion in his poses; he acts his parts with feeling, whether the exquisite suffering of Saint Sebastian, a vision of sweet innocence as he floats through the hazy forest in a dream, or the heroic nobility of this mythological character, described simply as ‘Youth with Feathered Hat and Robe’.