Gay renaissance paintings

Artists like Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Guido Reni (who was responsible for many a homoerotic rendition of Saint Sebastian) are all reported to have loved and had sex with men.

Happy Pride! As Pride Month kicks off we at Abir Pothi compiled a list of paintings in art history that are, well, just a little bit fruity. Or you could just enjoy the beauty and affection in these artworks which they are meant to represent at their very core.

Such forbidden desires underpinned some of the greatest art of the day, from Shakespearean sonnets to great Italian sculpture. Love letters and contemporary accounts reveal some of the gay romances.

The Renaissance encouraged individual thinking, so there was bound to be homosexual art work. Many painters knowingly added homoerotic undertones to their art, some even going as far as to paint same sex relationships on canvas. As Sappho said, "Someone, I tell you, will remember us even in another time.

Artists like Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Guido Reni (who was responsible for many a homoerotic rendition of Saint Sebastian) are all reported to have loved and had sex with men.

Inside Linearity. In this article. In the next and last installment of our Pride Month series, we'll cover the subject of queer art history.

Such forbidden desires underpinned some of the greatest art of the day, from Shakespearean sonnets to great Italian sculpture. Love letters and contemporary accounts reveal some of the gay romances.

That ardent lover was Michelangelo , who described Cavalieri in these glowing words in a letter from If only a portrait of Tommaso survived we could have seen his face, which the fiftysomething artist claimed in a poem was so beautiful it gave him a glimpse of paradise itself. Michelangelo did not just announce his love for this young upper-class citizen of Rome — who knew the pope and prominent cardinals socially — in verse and prose.