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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- RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
- RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
- RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
* gay art sculpture *
Donatello moled the heads of many of his sculptur and statu om Roman bts, and art historians now generally believe that David’s was based on Anto, Emperor Hadrian’s gay lover.
Janson first posed that the artist himself was gay (or at least mored to be) 1957, and that Donatello’s personal bgraphy drove his homoerotic pictn of David.
RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
Janson’s alln to Donatello’s homosexualy, and his suggtn that the artist’s inty might have played a part this masterpiece, put cril nos out of jot. Yet this reactn was particularly rash, nsirg that 15th-century Florence was nsired a gay mec.
RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
Florence had such a reputatn for beg acceptg of homosexualy that the French lled gay sex the “Florente Vice, ” and Germany, Florenzer was slang for a sodome. Conservative monks railed agast this acceptance for more than moral reasons, worryg that the growg trend of homosexual relatns between unmarried men would lead to a cy-wi populatn cle.