Homosexuality (pre-modern)

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English: For a sorted view of homosexuality in non-Western culture look at Homosexuality (non-Western). - See also: LGBT activists for portraits of LGBT activists.
Italiano: Per una galleria ordinata cronologicamente sull'omosessualità al di fuori della cultura Occidentale si veda Homosexuality (non-Western). - Si veda anche: LGBT activists, per una galleria d'immagini di militanti LGBT.
English: For an unsorted view look at Category:LGBT as well as at Category:Gay_Pride.
Italiano: Per un elenco d'immagini non ordinate cronologicamente si veda la Category:LGBT, come pure Category:Gay_Pride.

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[edit] Ancient Greece / Grèce ancienne / Grecia antica

Greek poet Anacreon (ca. 550 BC – ca. 464 BC). Bust in the Louvre museum.

Greek Philosopher Plato (ca. 427-347 BCE).

Symposium scene. Fresco from a tomb in Paestum (Italy).

Symposium scene. Fresco from a tomb in Paestum (Italy).

Achilles tending Patroclus' wound.

Courtship scene,
Greek homosexual couple.jpg

Greek homosexual couple.
Homosexual scene - 420 BCE, Dinos painter - Capua - GR 1772.3-20.154 F65 - British Museum.jpg

Two athletes at a palestra about to have sex, while a trainer watches

Zephyrus and Hyacinthos.

Pentesilea Painter, Zeus abducting Ganymede. Ferrara, Spina museum.

Ganymede with cockerel and hoop. Paris, Musée du Louvre.

Same-sex erotic scene - Louvre F85bis.

Same-sex courtship. Paris, Musée du Louvre.

Courtship gift. Paris, Musée du Louvre.

Man kissing a boy. Briseis Painter. Paris, Musée du Louvre.

[edit] Etruscans / Etrusques / Etruschi

Heracles, Love and Iolaus. Cista Ficoroni, 4 centruy b.C.

Etruscan vase - Males having sex.

[edit] Ancient Rome / Rome ancienne / Roma antica

Hercules and Iolaus. Roman mosaic.

Pan and Daphnis. Object found at Pompeii

Emperor Hadrian, Antinous' lover. After his death, he literally made Antinous a god.

Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.

Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.

Emperor Hadrian. - L'imperatore Adriano, amante di Antinoo.

Polydeukion, here portraied in a votive relief (2nd c. E.E.), was the favorite pupil and beloved of stoic philosopher and millionaire Herodes Atticus.

Ganymede - Ganimede (Museo delle Terme, Rome, Italy).

The rape of Ganymede (Museo archeologico, Venice, Italy) - Il ratto di Ganimede. Museo archeologico, Venezia.

Ganymede (Musée du Louvre, Paris, France).

Roman emperor Elagabalus, accused by his contemporaries of being an effeminate man and of loving men.

L'imperatore romano Elagabalo (203 o 204-222 d.C).

L'imperatore romano Elagabalo (203 o 204-222 d.C).

Elagabalus, on a coin.

Elagabalus, on a coin.

Warren Cup, side A

Warren Cup, side B

[edit] Ancient Rome - Antinous / Rome ancienne - Antinoüs / Roma antica - Antinoo

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[edit] Pre-modern non-European Homosexuality / Omosessualità non-Europea premoderna / Homosexualité non-européenne pre-moderne

[edit] Lesbian history

[edit] Pre-modern Europe - Miscellaneous topics / Europe pre-moderne - Autre / Europa premoderna - Miscellanea

Saint Sergius and Bacchus (7th century).

Biblical Prince Jonathan and David embrace. Manuscript illustration. La Somme le roy, circa 1300 AD.

Templars

Templars burned at stake (14th century).

Templars burned at stake. From the Chronicle of France or of St Denis (14th century?)

Templar kissing cleric. Manuscript illustration: Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon, c. 1350.

The burning of the knight of Hohenberg with his servant before the walls of Zürich, 1482.

Leonardo da Vinci, Anatomy of a male nude (ca. 1510).

Leonardo da Vinci, Uomo vitruviano / Vitruvian man.

Leonardo da Vinci, Uomo vitruviano / Vitruvian man.

Albrecht Dürer, "The Death of Orpheus" (1494). The banner (Orfeus der erst puseran) explains that Orpheus is being killed for being "the first sodomite".

Marcantonio Raimondi, Apollo, Giacinto e Amore [1506].

Plato and Aristotle as seen by Raphael, circa 1510. Rome, Palazzi vaticani.

Benedetto Montagna, Apollo e Ciparisso (1515/20).

Jacopo Caraglio (16th century), Apollo and Hyacinthos. Engraving.

Idem.

Ditto.

Virgil Solis, Apollo & Cyparissus (1563).

Virgil Solis, Apollo & Hyacinthus (1563).

Giulio Romano, Apollo e Ciparisso (1596) / Apollo and Cyparissus, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

Bathers at San Niccolò, Florence.

Two Florentines kiss. Florence, Uffizi.

Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Amore vincitore.

Thomas Arthus, Les hermaphrodites, 1605.

Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Davide e Golia.

Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Davide (1605/6 ca.).

Guido Reni, Davide (1606 ca.).

Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), Apollo e Ciparisso (1606).

Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), Apollo e Giacinto (1606).

Tanzio da Varallo (1575-1633), Davide e Golia, ca. 1625.

Carlo Cesio 1626 - 1686), Apollo e Giacinto [1675].

Apollo & Cyparissus (1702).

Apollo and Cyparissus. Engraving by Bauer, 1703.

Apollo and Hyacinthus. Engraving by Bauer, 1703.

Gottfried Bernhard Göz (1707-1774): King Saul embraces David.

Hetero and homosexual group sex in a 18th century engraving.

[edit] Pre-modern Europe - Sodom and Gomorrha / Europe pre-moderne - Sodome et Gomorrhe / Europa premoderna - Sodoma e Gomorra

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[edit] Pre-modern Europe - Zeus and Ganymede / Europe pre-moderne - Zeus et Ganymède / Europa premoderna - Zeus e Ganimede

Images up to 1800 ca.

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[edit] Pre-modern Europe - Portraits - Men / Europe pre-moderne - Portraits - Hommes/ Europa premoderna - Ritratti - Uomini

Emperor Hadrian. Modern bust.

Grave of Edward II of England (1284-1327) in York.

King Edward II of England (1284-1327), in a 17th century engraving.

1902 ideal portrait of Edward II.

Władysław III - King of Poland and Hungary.

François Clouet, Henri III de France, duc d'Anjou (1570).

Henri III of France (1551-1589).

François Quesnel, Henry III of France.

Francesco de' Bracci's grave (he died 16) designed by his lover Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Francesco de' Bracci's grave.

Francesco de' Bracci's grave.

Prospero Farinacci (1554-1618). Ministro della giustizia papale, fu processato per sodomia omosessuale.

Daniel Dumonstier, Louis XIII (1617). French king Louis 13th had several male lovers, among them, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars (1620 -1642)

Peter Paul Rubens, Louis XIII (1622/1625).

Louis XIII et le cardinal de Richelieu, victorieux devant La Rochelle.

French king Louis XIII (1601–1643).

John Atherton - The hanging of a bishop, from The life and death of John Atherton. Anonymous pamphlet, 1641.

en:John Atherton (1598-1640) & John Childe (16 -1640), 1641.

François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan (aka Eugen von Savoyen), (1663-1736).

François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan.

François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan.

François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan.

François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan.

Eugenio di Savoia.

Eugenio di Savoia nel momumento di Anton Dominik Fernkorn a Vienna (1865).

Eugenio di Savoia.

Eugenio di Savoia.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1755.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1768.

Frontispice of Les enfants de Sodome à l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris 1790.

[edit] Modern & contemporary era / Age moderne et contemporaire / Età moderna e contemporanea

English: This gallery continues (modern & contemporary, from 1800 ca. to date) at: Homosexuality. (The file had to be split due to its excessive size).
Italiano: Questa galleria prosegue (età moderna e contemporanea, dal 1800 ca. ad oggi) nella galleria: Homosexuality. (Il file è stato suddiviso a causa delle dimensioni eccessive).
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