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JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
Leonardo da Vci's personal life, homosexualy. The Renaissance, spired by the redisvery of the philosophy and art of the Classil perd, was also a new dawn for homoerotic exprsn.
Florence was famed for s wispread homosexual culture, which manifted as a normative perasty volvg boys between the ag of thirteen and eighteen relatnship wh adult men. Renaissance artists known to have had homosexual relatnships and whose work displays a homoerotic subtext clu Pontormo (1494 — 1557), Celli (1500 – 1571) (Celli's Perss), Bronzo (1503 -1572) (Andrea Doria as Neptune[1], Cosimo I ' Medici as Orphs[2] and Portra of a Young Man[3]), Caravagg (1571 – 1610) (Bacch, Boy Bten by a Lizard, Narciss). In the fal four s of the fifteenth century, 17, 000 Florente men had been acced of sodomy by the Office of the Night (an stutn found to vtigate homosexual relatns).
However, sheer statistics unrme the plex dynamics of homosexual relatns fifteenth-century Florence. Unrstandgs of Ancient Greek thought provid a amework for Florente men to engage wh homosexual relatns, creatg a disurse that uld both jtify and nmn their actns.