Homosexuality (pre-modern)

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

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  Greek poet Anacreon (ca. 550 BC – ca. 464 BC). Bust in the Louvre museum.
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  Greek Philosopher Plato (ca. 427-347 BCE).
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  Sappho of Lesbos, depicted here in a 1904 painting by John William Godward, gave the term lesbian the connotation of erotic desire between women.
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  Anal sex between two males. Drinking cup. Greek; archaic period. 550-500 BCE
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  Anal sex between two males. Other side of Drinking cup. Greek; archaic period. 550-500 BCE
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  Anal sex between two young males on a bed. The figure on the bottom has a visible erection. Poem above calls on the reader to go enjoy life. Late Hellenistic agate gemstone. 1st century BCE
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  At the top of the image a male guides their penis towards a second male. Below are Komast dancers. Below and right is sex between a female and a male. Amphora. Timiades Painter. Date: around: 570 - 560 BCE.
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  Hyacinthus and Zephyrus. Figure on the left may also be Eros. Around 480 BCE. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  Hyacinthus and Zephyrus. Figure on the left may also be Eros. Around 480 BCE. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  Hyacinthus and Zephyrus. Attic Kylix. 500 - 450 BCE
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  Winged Eros and a boy. Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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  Zeus rape Ganymedes
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  Pentesilea Painter, Zeus abducting Ganymede. Ferrara, Spina museum.
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  Satyr orgy
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  Exterior of an Attic kylix with pederastic courtship scenes. Artist; Douris. Potter; Attributed to the Python potter. Date; Around 480BCE. Museum; J. Paul Getty Museum
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  A second image of the same Attic kylix. This is the interior of the kylix. The exterior of the Kylix shows pederastic courtship scenes. Artist; Douris. Potter; Attributed to the Python potter. Date; Around 480BCE. Museum; J. Paul Getty Museum
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  Pederastic courtship.
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  Tritone e Teseo. Rilievo da Milo, 470-460 a.C.
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  Greek poet Anacreon with his lover.
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  Book (2002)
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  Pederastic courtship. Around 540 BCE. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
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  Pederastic courtship. Around 540 BCE. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
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  Pederastic courtship. Attic cup. around 530 – 520 BCE. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
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  Pederasty scene
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  Pederasty scene. Lekythos. 6th century BCE
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  Pederasty scene. Lekythos. 6th century BCE.
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  Pederasty scene
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  Pederastic courtship. Athens National Museum
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  Pederasty scene
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  Pederastic courtship. Side B of a column-krater, 480–460 BCE
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  Pederasty scene. Attic Kylix. Brygos Painter. 470 BCE
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  Pederasty scene. Attic Kylix. Brygos Painter. 470 BCE
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  Pederasty scene. Briseis Painter. around 480 BCE Paris, Musée du Louvre
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  Pederastic scene. Kylix. Terracotta. Carpenter Painter. 510 - 500 BCE
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  Pederasty scene - Kylix by Peithinos 1 of 3. Altes Museum, F 2279.
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  Pederasty scene - Kylix by Peithinos 2 of 3. Altes Museum, F 2279.
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  Pederasty scene - Kylix by Peithinos 3 of 3. Altes Museum, F 2279.
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  Pederastic scene. Aryballos. mid 6th century BCE. Museum of fine Arts, Boston
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  Pederastic scene. Aryballos. mid 6th century BCE. Museum of fine Arts, Boston
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  Symposium. Aryballos. mid 6th century BCE. Museum of fine Arts, Boston
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  Two handled cup. A Karchesion. This side has an inscription above the figures that reads, "Kalos", Handsome. Around 520 BCE - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  Detail of two handled cup. A Karchesion. This side has an inscription above the figures that reads, "Kalos", Handsome. Around 520 BCE - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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  Other side of Two handled cup. A Karchesion. Around 520 BCE - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  Pederastic scene. Bell Krater. Attributed to: The Dinos Painter. Production date around 420BCE
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  A second image of the same bell krater. Attributed to: The Dinos Painter. Production date around 420BCE
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  Pederastic sex. Tyrrhenian amphora. Guglielmi painter. Around 565 - 550 BCE
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  Pederastic sex. Tyrrhenian amphora. 560 - 530 BCE.
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  Pederastic sex.Detail of Tyrrhenian amphora. 560 - 530 BCE.
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  Neck Amphora. At the far right is a pederastic scene between two males. Artist: The Timiades Painter. 575 - 550 BCE
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  Pederastic scene. Attic Psykter. Attributed to Smikros. Date: around 510 BCE
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  Pederastic scene. Attic Psykter. Attributed to Smikros. Date: around 510 BCE
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  Pederastic scene. Attic Psykter. Attributed to Smikros. Date: around 510 BCE
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  Pederastic scene. Attic Psykter. Attributed to Smikros. Date: around 510 BCE
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  Young man fondles another
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  Symposium scene. Attic kylix. Around 460-450 BCE.
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  Symposium scene. Detail. Attic kylix. Around 460-450 BCE.
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  This image has been given the description of a "...courting couple at the symposium." and a "Symposium scene with youths." . Interior of an Attic cup. Artist; Painter from Colmar. Around 500 - 450 BCE. Louvre Museum
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  Symposium scene. Fresco from the north wall of a tomb in Paestum (Italy). 470 BCE
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  Detail of Fresco from the north wall. 470 BCE
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  Symposium scene. Fresco from the north wall of a tomb in Paestum (Italy). 470 BCE
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  Symposium scene. Fresco from the south wall of a tomb in Paestum (Italy). 470 BCE
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  Symposium scene. Fresco from the south wall a tomb in Paestum (Italy). 470 BCE

Etruscans / Etrusques / Etruschi

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  Heracles and Hylas. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.
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  Heracles, Love and Iolaus. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.
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  Heracles, Love and Iolaus. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.
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  Anal sex between two males. The figure on the left is playing with a hoop. Amphora. Etruscan. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. 5th century BCE
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  Etruscan fresco - Males having sex.

Ancient Rome / Rome ancienne / Roma antica

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  Hercules and Iolaus. Roman mosaic.
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  Pan and Daphnis. Object found at Pompeii.
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  Inscription from Pompeii.
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  Poem from Pompeii.
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  Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.
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  Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.
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  Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.
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  Emperor Hadrian. - L'imperatore Adriano, amante di Antinoo.
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  Polydeukion, here portraied in a votive relief (2nd c. E.E.), was the favorite pupil and beloved of stoic philosopher and millionaire Herodes Atticus.
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  Ganymede - Ganimede (Museo delle Terme, Rome, Italy).
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  The rape of Ganymede (Museo archeologico, Venice, Italy) - Il ratto di Ganimede. Museo archeologico, Venezia.
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  Ditto.
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  Ditto.
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  Silenus and Eros.
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  Roman coin celebrating pederasty
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  Ganymede (Musée du Louvre, Paris, France).
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  Roman emperor Elagabalus, accused by his contemporaries of being an effeminate man and of loving men.
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  L'imperatore romano Elagabalo (203 o 204-222 d.C).
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  L'imperatore romano Elagabalo (203 o 204-222 d.C).
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  Elagabalus, on a coin.
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  Warren Cup, side A
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  Warren Cup, side B
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  Lesbian sex scene. Wall painting. Suburban baths, Pompeii.
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  Sex between a female and two males on a wall painting from the suburban baths. Pompeii. 62 to 79 CE
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  Cunnilingus, fellatio and anal sex between two females and two males. Wall painting. suburban baths, Pompeii. 62 to 79 CE
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  Sex between two females and two males. On the right are two females and the figure furthest to the right has raised their legs around the person next to them. On the left is anal sex between two males. 65 - 80 CE. Vorarlberg museum, Austria
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  Perfume bottle made of cameo glass showing young men in bed found in the Roman necropolis of Ostippo (Spain).
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  A drawing based on a fragment of an ancient Roman glass vessel. 1826 - 1827
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  A fragment of a glass vessel showing a homosexual scene - circa 15 BCE -1st Century CE
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  A mold for an Arretine bowl that shows sex between a female and a male on the left side. On the right is sex between two males. In the middle is an ithyphallic herm. Vase, mold for Arretine bowl. Late 1st century BCE
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  Sex between two males. Fragment of Arretine bowl. 1st century BCE
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  Sex between two males. Vase, fragment of Arretine bowl. 1 CE to 375 CE
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  Sex between two males. Ceramic bowl. Late 1st century BCE
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  Spintria token. Male lovers on bed on the obverse side of the token. Production date 1stC (probably)

Ancient Rome - Antinous / Rome ancienne - Antinoüs / Roma antica - Antinoo

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

• See it as: Homosexuality (non-Western).
• Vedila come: Homosexuality (non-Western).
• Voir comme: Homosexuality (non-Western).

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

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  Saint Sergius and Bacchus (7th century).
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  Biblical Prince Jonathan and David embrace. Manuscript illustration. La Somme le roy, circa 1300 AD.
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  Zoan-Andrea (1464-1526), Two women. Italian Renaissance engraving.
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  Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.
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  Templars burned at stake (14th century).
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  Templars burned at stake. From the Chronicle of France or of St Denis (14th century?)
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  Templar kissing cleric. Manuscript illustration: Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon, c. 1350.
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  The burning of the knight of Hohenberg with his servant before the walls of Zürich, 1482.
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  Leonardo da Vinci, Anatomy of a male nude (ca. 1510).
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  Leonardo da Vinci, Uomo vitruviano / Vitruvian man.
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  Leonardo da Vinci, Uomo vitruviano / Vitruvian man.
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  Albrecht Dürer, "The Death of Orpheus" (1494). The banner (Orfeus der erst puseran) explains that Orpheus is being killed for being "the first sodomite".
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  Marcantonio Raimondi, Apollo, Giacinto e Amore [1506].
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  Plato and Aristotle as seen by Raphael, circa 1510. Rome, Palazzi vaticani.
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  Benedetto Montagna, Apollo e Ciparisso (1515/20).
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  Jacopo Caraglio (16th century), Apollo and Hyacinthos. Engraving.
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  Idem.
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  Ditto.
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  Virgil Solis, Apollo & Cyparissus (1563).
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  Virgil Solis, Apollo & Hyacinthus (1563).
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  Giulio Romano, Apollo e Ciparisso (1596) / Apollo and Cyparissus, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
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  Gender masquerade as a dramatic device was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries
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  Bathers at San Niccolò, Florence.
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  Two Florentines kiss. Florence, Uffizi.
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  Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Amore vincitore.
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  Thomas Arthus, Les hermaphrodites, 1605.
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  Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Davide e Golia.
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  Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Davide (1605/6 ca.).
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  Guido Reni, Davide (1606 ca.).
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  Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), Apollo e Ciparisso (1606).
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  Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), Apollo e Giacinto (1606).
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  Tanzio da Varallo (1575-1633), Davide e Golia, ca. 1625.
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  Carlo Cesio 1626 - 1686), Apollo e Giacinto [1675].
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  Lesbianism and hermaphroditism, depicted here in an engraving circa 1690, were very similar concepts during the Renaissance.
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  Apollo & Cyparissus (1702).
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  Apollo and Cyparissus. Engraving by Bauer, 1703.
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  Apollo and Hyacinthus. Engraving by Bauer, 1703.
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  Gottfried Bernhard Göz (1707-1774): King Saul embraces David.
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  Pan and Syrinx by François Boucher (1759)
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  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

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

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  Emperor Hadrian. Modern bust.
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  Grave of Edward II of England (1284-1327) in York.
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  King Edward II of England (1284-1327), in a 17th century engraving.
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  1902 ideal portrait of Edward II.
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  Władysław III - King of Poland and Hungary.
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  François Clouet, Henri III de France, duc d'Anjou (1570).
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  Henri III of France (1551-1589).
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  François Quesnel, Henry III of France.
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  Francesco de' Bracci's grave (he died 16) designed by his lover Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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  Francesco de' Bracci's grave.
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  Francesco de' Bracci's grave.
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  Prospero Farinacci (1554-1618). Ministro della giustizia papale, fu processato per sodomia omosessuale.
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  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)
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  Peter Paul Rubens, Louis XIII (1622/1625).
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  Louis XIII et le cardinal de Richelieu, victorieux devant La Rochelle.
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  French king Louis XIII (1601–1643).
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  John Atherton - The hanging of a bishop, from The life and death of John Atherton. Anonymous pamphlet, 1641.
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  en:John Atherton (1598-1640) & John Childe (16 -1640), 1641.
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy (aka Eugen von Savoyen), (1663-1736).
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy.
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy.
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy.
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy.
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  Eugenio di Savoia.
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  Eugenio di Savoia nel momumento di Anton Dominik Fernkorn a Vienna (1865).
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  Eugenio di Savoia.
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  Eugenio di Savoia.
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  Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1755.
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  Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1768.
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  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

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  Colossal head of Sappho, Istanbul. 2nd century aD.
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  Sébastien Bourdon (±1653): Ebba Sparre (1626-1662) lady-in-waiting to and intimate companion of Sweden's Queen Christina
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  Aphra Behn by Peter Lely ca. 1670
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  Archduchess Marie Christine
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  Princess Isabella of Parma

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).

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