Today In Gay History: Caravagg Loved John

Contents:

• CARAVAGG: GAY IN BORN TOO LATE?
• CARAVAGG’S QUEER JTHE ITALIAN PATER GAVE CHRISTIANY A REAL MSIAHJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·7 M READ·APR 11, 2021--4SHAREOTTAV LEONI, CHALK PORTRA OF CARAVAGG, C.1621WHEN I WAS GROWG UP CHRISTIAN, NOBODY TOLD ME THE RELIGN TOOK S KEY IMAG OF J OM QUEER PATERS.HOW IRONIC, I’D REALIZE LATER, FOR A RELIGN THAT HATED THE DREAD “GAYS” TO LOVE MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO, ETC. CHRISTIANS LOVED THE MOVIE THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST. THE DIRECTOR, MEL GIBSON, SPOKE OF HIS SPIRATN:“I THK HIS WORK IS BETIFUL. I MEAN ’S VLENT, ’S DARK, ’S SPIRUAL AND ALSO HAS AN ODD WHIMSY OR STRANGENS TO . AND ’S SO REAL LOOKG.”THE ITALIAN PATER CARAVAGG HAD SHOWN CHRISTIANS HOW TO SEE J AS A PHYSIL MAN. IT TOOK A HOMOSEXUAL TO DO THAT?CARAVAGG, “CHRIST AT THE COLUMN” (1607); MEL GIBSON’S “THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST” (2004)I’M LEARNG ONLY NOW ABOUT CARAVAGG’S FLUENCE ON CHRISTIANY.
• WHY RSIA SHOULD BAN MICHELANGELO AND CARAVAGG'S GAY 'PROPAGANDA'
• POSG AS A GAY BACCH: CARAVAGG AND THE QUEER ART AT THE UFFIZI GALLERY
• CARAVAGG’S GAY J

CARAVAGG: GAY IN BORN TOO LATE?

As gay in, father of morn patg and enigmatic artistic rebel, he speaks volum to 21st century dienc visg his current exhibn Rome. Caravagg may have taken the male portra a step further than the Classil tradn (addg quirky realism to the mix) but there’s no doubt that he revived an appreciatn for the male body (and unrton of a disurse on gay love) that had been pretty much stamped out sce the late fourth century AD.

A gay in he may be, but there is no nclive evince to suggt that Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravagg was homosexual. Gay or straight though, Caravagg remas a gay in for several reasons.

The Makgs of a Gay In. In fact a film has already been ma of his life an avant-gar, art-hoe film by Derek Jarman, himself a gay rights activist. Perhaps ’s a batn of all the thgs his artistic visn, his flamboyant liftyle and the drama surroundg him that have ma him to somethg of a gay in today.

CARAVAGG’S QUEER JTHE ITALIAN PATER GAVE CHRISTIANY A REAL MSIAHJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·7 M READ·APR 11, 2021--4SHAREOTTAV LEONI, CHALK PORTRA OF CARAVAGG, C.1621WHEN I WAS GROWG UP CHRISTIAN, NOBODY TOLD ME THE RELIGN TOOK S KEY IMAG OF J OM QUEER PATERS.HOW IRONIC, I’D REALIZE LATER, FOR A RELIGN THAT HATED THE DREAD “GAYS” TO LOVE MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO, ETC. CHRISTIANS LOVED THE MOVIE THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST. THE DIRECTOR, MEL GIBSON, SPOKE OF HIS SPIRATN:“I THK HIS WORK IS BETIFUL. I MEAN ’S VLENT, ’S DARK, ’S SPIRUAL AND ALSO HAS AN ODD WHIMSY OR STRANGENS TO . AND ’S SO REAL LOOKG.”THE ITALIAN PATER CARAVAGG HAD SHOWN CHRISTIANS HOW TO SEE J AS A PHYSIL MAN. IT TOOK A HOMOSEXUAL TO DO THAT?CARAVAGG, “CHRIST AT THE COLUMN” (1607); MEL GIBSON’S “THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST” (2004)I’M LEARNG ONLY NOW ABOUT CARAVAGG’S FLUENCE ON CHRISTIANY.

In any se, Caravagg lived at a time when havg a public gay relatnship wh another man was jt about impossible.

Nohels, art crics believe that some of Caravagg’s work was pated for an unrground homosexual scene that existed Rome at that time, which clud the rich rdal l Monte and his artistic circle of iends.

However, any homosexual eroticism was refully hidn. A hundred and fifty years before Caravagg, Florence and Venice had bee Renaissance ci where homosexual relatnships between men were wily acceptable. The Roman tolerance was drawg to an end by the late fourth century AD, when the Christian emperor Theodosi I passed a law 390 nmng to ath by beg burnt at the stake if ught havg gay sex.

WHY RSIA SHOULD BAN MICHELANGELO AND CARAVAGG'S GAY 'PROPAGANDA'

How would his figur have appeared if he hadn’t been livg such a reprsive time and place, and if the openns to homosexualy found Greek and Roman art was still prent Baroque Italy? But how would his figur have appeared if he hadn’t been livg such a reprsive time and place, and if the openns to homosexualy found Greek and Roman art was still prent Baroque Italy? Many Roman artworks openly show gay relatnships between men.

Other works of gay art om the Greek and Roman worlds clu the Bell Krater (showg sex between a young man and his olr ‘tutor’ or ‘protector’), which is also the Brish Mm along wh a agment of Roman art pated onto a glass meo. His art reprents for many the supprsn of homosexualy, while perhaps secretly celebratg bee who uld look at a patg such as Bacch, or Sat John the Baptist, whout feelg that here is a celebratn and appreciatn of the male form? The 400-year old patgs will ensure Caravagg keeps his stat as gay in.

POSG AS A GAY BACCH: CARAVAGG AND THE QUEER ART AT THE UFFIZI GALLERY

As wh Barbara Stanwyck, Caravagg n't be fively scribed as gay.

Director Derek Jarman took that assumptn and turned to a full-blown gay affair his 1986 bpic showg the pugnac Baroque pater fallg for street fight Ranucc. The ia that the men were lovers has more recently been even if Caravagg weren't gay, his work and the centuri of bate over his private life are enough to make him a gay in his own honor of the artist's ath 403 years ago today, and the many fantasi his patgs have spawned over the centuri, here are seven of his most famo, most ltfilled patgs, mostly of John the Baptist, as well as the trailer for Jarman's Caravagg, starrg Dexter Fletch as the tular artist, Tilda Swton as his lady love Lena, and Sean Bean as Ranucc.

1621When I was growg up Christian, nobody told me the relign took s key imag of J om queer ironic, I’d realize later, for a relign that hated the dread “gays” to love Michelangelo, Leonardo, etc. It took a homosexual to do that?

CARAVAGG’S GAY J

This work particular hosts a homosocial event of mic and s nnectns to love, as signified by the cupid on the left si of the patg. Pictur and Passns: A History of Homosexualy the Visual Arts.