Contents:
- LEONARDO DA VCI’S SEXUALY: WHY HISTORIANS BELIEVE THE FAMED ITALIAN ARTIST WAS GAY
- WAS LEONARDO DA VCI GAY?
LEONARDO DA VCI’S SEXUALY: WHY HISTORIANS BELIEVE THE FAMED ITALIAN ARTIST WAS GAY
In Leonardo, the character is shown to be gay – somethg that chim wh the current amic subject of da Vci’s sexualy has been discsed for s, wh historians, artists and even Sigmund Frd weighg wh theori about his sex life.
A ntroversial say by Frd 1910, entled “Leonardo da Vci and A Memory of His Childhood, ” psychoanalys the artist, posg that he was gay, but celibate. A portra of da Vci, cir 1500 (Getty Imag)The Guardian’s art cric Jonathan Jon wrote that da Vci was “almost certaly gay”, but highlighted his life-long creative fatuatns wh women. Plan to-renews until ncelledTry for eeThe recent bgraphy of da Vci by Walter Isaacson also agreed that the artist was likely gay.
WAS LEONARDO DA VCI GAY?
(Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Imag)Was Leonardo da Vci gay?
Age-gaps were not exclive to same-sex relatnships: girls might also be married very drama 'Leonardo' on Amazon Prime, starrg Aidan Turner, picts Leonardo as a gay man. But the crime that the ernment was really tryg to ntrol was sodomy, so notorly prevalent that ntemporary German slang for a homosexual was Florenzer.
Isaacson’s Leonardo is a parably morn figure, not merely “human, ” as the thor lik to pot out, but a blhe societal misf: “illegimate, gay, vegetarian, left-hand, easily distracted, and at tim heretil. ” Frd was apologetic about potg out that the fantasy “rrponds to the ia of an act of fellat, ” which rears might well nsir a grave sult to the artist, although “tradn do fact reprent Leonardo as a man wh homosexual feelgs.