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The prodigious achievements in painting, sculpture, and architecture of Michelangelo Buonarroti made him celebrated during his lifetime as a divinely-inspired creator, while his tempestuous, melancholy, and troubled personality epitomized an emerging conception of artistic genius, particularly the nexus between creative and homosexual temperament. While his supporters countered public presumption of his homosexuality with denial, his enemies used it against him. In latest times, homosexual communities have combined this suggestive biography with his oeuvre celebrating the male body to construct a subcultural icon. That status is reinforced by his poetry, a serious avocation that produced the first modern corpus of male-male like lyrics.
Trained in Florence, a city proverbial for sodomy, Michelangelo was exposed to homosexuality at all social levels. The sexual demimonde was ubiquitous, while the humanist circles around Lorenzo de' Medici (–) embraced a Neoplatonic philosophy and art that idealized classical pederasty. The scholar Angelo Poliziano (–), himself homo
Was Michelangelo Gay? Let’s Investigate the Evidence
Published: Feb 15, written by Rosie Lesso, MA Contemporary Art Theory, BA Fine Art
The amazing and monumental Michelangelo, master of the High Renaissance, produced some of the most famous and commanding artworks of all age. From his colossal statue of David to the incredible Sistine Chapel ceiling, his artwork is a testament to the scope and ambition of human achievement. A deep kind of the human body was at the core of Michelangelo’s art, and almost all his paintings featured, or were based on the male body. This has led many to speculate about his sexuality. Can we expose any truths that advise Michelangelo was gay, or is this one of those mysterious questions that will never be answered? Let’s have a stare at the evidence and see…
Some Say Michelangelo Was Gay Because His Art Was So Focused on the Nude Male Body
Although Michelangelo painted a gigantic variety of figures throughout his incredibly prolific career, his most notable and ambitious works of art are undoubtedly dominated by the male form, which has led many
«Michelangelo's love for aristocratic young men, his poetry, and his tribute drawings are among the many topics explored in the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through February 12, As discussed in the catalogue by the exhibition's curator, Carmen C. Bambach, the artist's homosexuality was an open secret among his contemporaries and integral to understanding much of his creative production, despite frequent efforts to ignore or censor the topic beginning soon after the artist's death in »
Left: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, –). Sonnet "To Giovanni da Pistoia" and Caricature on His Painting of the Sistine Ceiling. Pen and brown ink, sheet: 11 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. ( x 20 cm). Casa Buonarroti, Florence Archivio Buonarroti (XIII, fol. )
On the occasion of the exhibition, I interviewed James M. Saslow, emeritus professor of art history, theater, and Renaissance studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (as well as my former graduate advisor). A pioneer
Michelangelo gay: the disguised history of the artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti is established to have been, fancy Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. His personal life, like Da Vinci, was just as fascinating as his works of art.
Michelangelo&#;s personal being has sparked interest and debate over the centuries, particularly regarding his sexual orientation. The question of whether Michelangelo was homosexual or not has been the focus of much discussion and analysis of his works, relationships, and poems.
In this article, we will explore Michelangelo&#;s being, relationships, and his most famous works of art in light of the question about his gay orientation, seeking to finer understand the man behind the artist and the historical and cultural context in which he lived. We will also search the challenges Michelangelo Buonarroti faced in his personal and professional life, and how his authenticity, his passion for art left a lasting legacy.
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