Mass shooting: an abstraction and an icon

[ by Charles Cameron — the Aurora cinema shooting — a forensic view, and one through Mantegna’s eyes ]

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Two ways to be chilled once again by the 2012 slaughter in the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

The forensic view comes courtesy of the Colorado DA‘s office:

Mantegna‘s image of St Sebastian — one of three he painted — affords us a reminder of human suffering.

The film that was showing at the Aurora Century 16 that midnight was The Dark Knight Rises.