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.
English: For more images related to female homosexuals, see Lesbian history.

Ancient Greece / Grèce ancienne / Grecia antica[edit]

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

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

  • Sappho of Lesbos, depicted here in a 1904 painting by John William Godward, gave the term lesbian the connotation of erotic desire between women.

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

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

  • Courtship scene,

  • Zeus rape Ganymedes

  • Young man fondles another

  • 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.

  • Pederastic courtship.

  • Satyr orgy

  • Pederastic courtship.

  • Tritone e Teseo. Rilievo da Milo, 470-460 a.C.

  • The god Zephyrus and the youth Hyacinthus

  • pederast couple

  • Greek poet Anacreon with his lover.

  • Book (2002)

  • Late Hellenistic gemstone showing two young men in bed, both sporting erections. Poem above calls on the reader to go enjoy life

Etruscans / Etrusques / Etruschi[edit]

  • Heracles and Hylas. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.

  • Heracles, Love and Iolaus. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.

  • Heracles, Love and Iolaus. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.

  • Etruscan vase - Anal intercourse between two men

  • Etruscan fresco - Males having sex.

Ancient Rome / Rome ancienne / Roma antica[edit]

  • Hercules and Iolaus. Roman mosaic.

  • Pan and Daphnis. Object found at Pompeii.

  • Inscription from Pompeii.

  • Poem from Pompeii.

  • Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.

  • 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.

  • Ditto.

  • Ditto.

  • Silenus and Eros.

  • Roman coin celebrating pederasty

  • 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.

  • Warren Cup, side A

  • Warren Cup, side B

  • Bisexual threesome in Pompeii

  • Perfume bottle made of cameo glass showing young men in bed found in the Roman necropolis of Ostippo (Spain).

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

  • For a faster download, the gallery was moved to a separate page: Antinous.
  • Per uno scarico più veloce, la galleria è stata spostata in una pagina a sé: Antinous

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

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

  • Saint Sergius and Bacchus (7th century).

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

  • Zoan-Andrea (1464-1526), Two women. Italian Renaissance engraving.

  • Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.

  • 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.

  • Gender masquerade as a dramatic device was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries

  • 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.

  • 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].

  • Lesbianism and hermaphroditism, depicted here in an engraving circa 1690, were very similar concepts during the Renaissance.

  • 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.

  • Pan and Syrinx by François Boucher (1759)

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

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

  • The gallery was moved to a page of its own, Sodom and Gomorrha, to allow a faster download.
  • Questa galleria è stata spostata in una pagina a sé, Sodom and Gomorrha, per permettere uno scaricamento più veloce.

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

Images up to 1800 ca.

  • The gallery was moved to a page of its own, Ganymede, to allow a faster donwload.
  • Questa galleria è stata spostata in una pagina a sé, Ganimede, per permettere uno scaricamento più veloce.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Prince Eugène of Savoy.

  • Prince Eugène of Savoy.

  • Prince Eugène of Savoy.

  • Prince Eugène of Savoy.

  • 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.

Pre-modern Europe - Portraits - Women / Europe pre-moderne - Portraits - Femmes / Europa premoderna - Ritratti - Donne[edit]

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

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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