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WAS MICHELANGELO GAY? LET’S EXAME THE EVINCE
Can we unver any tths that suggt Michelangelo was gay, or is this one of those myster qutns that will never be answered? Some Say Michelangelo Was Gay Bee His Art Was So Foced on the Nu Male Body.
Although Michelangelo pated a huge variety of figur throughout his credibly prolific reer, his most notable and amb works of art are undoubtedly domated by the male form, which has led many to speculate about whether or not this is evince he was gay. Did this mean that Michelangelo was gay?
Some Argue Michelangelo Was Gay Bee He Wrote Love Poems For a Young Man Named Tommaso Cavalieri. An Italian art historian claims some of the imag picted Michelangelo's "Last Judgment"—the on the wall of the Siste Chapel—were spired by acts the artist wnsed homosexual bathho. ) Lazzari go on to say that Michelangelo drew spiratn om his fellow gays and the mcular prostut who regularly worked the lossal work, which took the Renaissance master four years to pat and grac the Siste Chapel Vatin Cy, is a pictn of judgment day, wh the virtuo beg lled to heaven and sners beg dragged to hell.
THE GAYT IMAG OM MICHELANGELO'S MOST FAMO PATG
Nope, nothg gay happeng here. Was Michelangelo gay?
Yet for centuri, Mikey's sexualy was obscured--as homosexualy so often is.
It was Michelangelo's scennt, grandnephew Michelangelo The Younger, who re-wrote his famo forebearer's gay poetry 1623 to read as if they were wrten by a woman. It was 19th-century gay cric John Addgton Symonds who brought the tth to light his 1893 is one of the many poems Michelangelo wrote to Tommaso i Cavalieri, one of the many younger men he adored:"Wh your fair ey a charmg light I see, For which my own bld ey would peer va; Stayed by your feet the burn I sta Which my lame feet fd all too strong for me; Wgls upon your pns forth I fly; Heavenward your spir stirreth me to stra; E'en as you will, I blh and blanch aga, Freeze the sun, burn 'neath a osty sky.