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The Women-Hater's Lamentation
This illustration is from an English broadside ballad, printed on a single sheet of paper. The picture accompanies a set of satirical verses. The first of the three panels shows two men attempting suicide after being arrested for sodomy, the middle depicts two men embracing, and the third shows a hanged man being cut down.
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The Visitation
Incomplete embroidery panel (cut and damage). The scene on the left depicts the Annunciation. The center scene depicts the Viitation. The right scene depicts an incomplete Nativity scene.
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Jupiter Kissing Ganymede
This fresco depicts the Roman god Jupiter kissing his mortal lover Ganymede. Painted as an imitation of an ancient Roman fresco, it was created to fool archeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, due to his enthusiasm for homosexual love and themes.
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Death of Hyacinthos
In this painting, Apollo holds his dead lover, Hyacinthos, who has been killed by a discus thrown by Apollos and blown off course by the jealous west wind Zephyrus.
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David and Jonathan
This image is a leaf from La Somme le roi, a moral treatise written by Dominican Friar Laurent d'Orléans, and illustrated by many several secular illuminators.
On the left:
A crowned female figure stands on a dragon and holds a medallion as a dove. The inscription above, "Amistie," her labels her as "friendship." Beneath Friendship, David and Jonathan embrace over an inscription "David et Jonathas."
On the right: Elias cringes away from a lamp below below an inscription "hely" (hatred). Below this, Saul is threatening to kill David, above an inscription "saul et david."
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As The Crow Flies
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As The Crow Flies
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As The Crow Flies
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As The Crow Flies
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As The Crow Flies
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Portrait Head of Antinous, possibly as the god Dionysus
Marble portrait head from a statue of Antinous (as Dionysus?) wearing a wreath of ivy. The bust is modern.
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Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting the Bull of Heaven?
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Drinking cup showing Achilles bandaging Patroclus’ wound
A drinking cup showing Achilles and Patroclus
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Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene