Gay renaissance paintings
Featuring works from – relating to Lesbian identities and Homoerotic appearances within art. Under the umbrella term of 'art and identity', sexuality resides within its own category. Gay Art explores how artists expressed themselves in a period when established assumptions about gender and sexuality were entity questioned and transformed. Taking a roughly chronological view of the most significant shifts and themes when it comes to the sluggish incline of acceptance of homosexuality. It is important to understand historical context when viewing these works, and the changing laws and views on homosexuality around the world
Artists featured in this Curation:Derek Jarman (–), John David Yeadon (b), Colin Hall (b), David Hockney (b), Francis Bacon (–), Henry Scott Tuke (–), Ethel Walker (–), William Strang (–), Duncan Grant (–),
The LGBTQ+ community is nothing new, and to yank that subject into debate is nothing but creative folly. As we relocate forward into pride month it is important to look back and confess the people who made a contribution to Gay history by simply existing in a time period that was &#; more often than not &#; unkind to them.
This can be a complicated topic. We are looking at contextual evidence that, to those of us from within the queer society, feels familiar. What historians have often written off as “close friends” or the “eccentricities” expected of famous historical figures the LGBTQ+ community looks at and see a reflection of what they comprehend to be indicators of people under the umbrella. Obviously, we cannot travel back and ask these people definitively what they identified as. In most cases, the labels we have created in the modern era would include had no meaning in s England. For this reason, I choose to use the blanket designation of ‘queer’ in reference to them as it encompasses a wide array of sexuality and gender identities with it.
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Queer Storytelling in Visual Media
The Renaissance through the 17th Century
The Renaissance saw a resurgence of the Classical arts and the birth of humanism (Smalls ). The humanists were interested in reconnecting the Classical stories they were familiar with their pederastic origins, as well as with the conservative Christian and Catholic themes that had prevailed in art and society for the past millennium. In Italy, one of the hearts of the Renaissance, humanism led to the increasing toleration of hedonism and bisexuality as Classical values. Classical myths dignified homosexual intercourse, and artists were both privately and publically homosexual.
As the prevalence of public homosexuality increased, so did the repression of homosexuality. In Venice, the Signori di Notti and then the Council of Ten prosecuted cases of sodomy and sentenced those found guilty to corporal punishment and execution (Ruggiero ). Religious fundamentalists increased with the Protestant Reformation, during which time both the Protestant and Catholic churches b
Two of the greatest artists of the era, da Vinci and Michelangelo, were queer . This isn't one of those guessing games people sometimes participate about famous figures of the past, but is copiously adv documented. It is well documented because in Florence around people within the charmed circle where art intersected with money and power wrote quite openly about it. The two artists were, incidentally, gay in quite alternative ways. Leonardo was heterodox in his religious beliefs (see his famous painting of Saint John the Baptist above, which fuses spirituality with androgynous sexuality) and a cheerful person besides, and he seems to have been quite happy with his identity.
Michelangelo was a devout and much more conventional Catholic who suffered from inner torment throughout his life, which some people