Why Donatello’s famoly androgyno sculpture of “David” should be tepreted as a reflectn of gay culture Renaissance Florence." data-reactroot="
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DONATELLA VERSACE HAS LONG BEEN A GAY IN. NOW IT’S OFFICIAL.
The sculptor lived at a time when you uld be burned at the stake for homosexualy. Yet, as an exhibn of his work hs London, the evince that he was openly gay seems creasgly nvcg * donatello gay *
It pats Donatello as an openly gay artist and his ma employer, Cosimo, as havg a relaxed, supportive unrstandg of his sexualy, spe livg a medieval Christian age when you uld be burned at the stake for “sodomy” the V&A prepar to unveil an exhibn of Donatello, this tale suggts he is an artist who n speak directly to our time. For means Donatello, who was born cir 1386 and died 1466, was the first artist history to exprs a gay or queer is all the more signifint as Donatello created, for Cosimo, the first lifized statue of a male nu erected anywhere Europe sce pagan antiquy.
DONATELLO - GAYS, CAREER AND CHILDHOOD
He shudred at the ia of David as a gay artwork, scribg as “aberrant nonsense” and claimg such theori “left a ltle trail of slime on a great work of art.