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GAY ART HISTORY TOURS HOMOEROTILLY RETHK THE METROPOLAN MM’S ARTWORK
* renaissance gay art *
Even as they emphasised the Christian msage of this scene, homosexual artists of the Renaissance were not bld to the more obv meang of the Ganyme myth. While many homosexual men had to rema gey about their love, there were some outspoken artists who were relatively open about their sir.
Today his works, cludg a patg of Ganyme before he is rried off, are some of the few ma by a homosexual artist that explore the psychology of gay men.
Dpe the ubiquy of Ganyme wtern art, his populary fell away the late neteenth century favour of another symbol for homosexual love. It may be that openly displayg a work of Ganyme, wh all of s illic homosexual unrton, would too openly 'out' a llector as a Ganyme himself. In one of the most famo portras of Wckelmann, the great art historian and homosexual n be seen proudly examg an engravg of a statue of Anto.
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In the 'Gay Corner' of the Congrsnal Cemetery Washgton, you will fd the name of Anto scribed on an obelisk unr the shady branch of a cherry tree. (A mockg name aimed at Bazzi’s homosexualy that Bazzi later began to embrace) was a pater of the Italian renaissance, born Savoy, Italy.
Donatello was one of the first morn artists to be known as gay Florence, a cy where homosexualy was proment among artists and patrons alike, albe, still owned upon by certa sectors (namely, the church. Durer’s Bath Hoe explor a homosocial environment of drkg, playg mic, and flirtg that illtrat Dürer’s experienc bath ho and siar areas. 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).