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Manuscript illumination depicting a lesbian couple kissing and a gay male couple embracing from the Moralized Bible of Vienna (1220s).

This illustration is one of the only explicit depictions of female homosexuality known from the medieval era.

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Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897-1994)

Young Women Face to Face, 1972

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Two Women Kissing in Nature (b. 1859)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

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Étienne Tournès – Intimacy (1901)

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Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)

The Sleepers, 1866

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Vittorio Reggianini

Italian, 1858-1938

The Lecture (detail)

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Illustrations from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901)

The Two Friends, 1895

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Johann Friedrich Overbeck (German, 1789-1869)

Italy and Germany

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hey do people know about this painting??? because it hangs in the art gallery in my city and it makes me a little insane every time i see it

anyway it's called the victory of faith (1891) and it's by saint george hare

**actually, i'm editing this to add a closeup of their faces too:

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Here's a little info on Wikipedia, but not much. Kobena Mercer is an art historian who has a modern view on the piece that would probably be informative but I can't find where to read it.

This page talks about the picture frame which is original to the piece. Even the label on the back is stunning.

I also found an engraving print made of the original.

. Engraving. . Public collection,

Please share what info you find below.

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the hands…..

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A 4th century CE statue of Aphroditos. Her cock wards off evil spirits. Reblog to rid your blog of evil spirits.

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when people post this painting of sappho i wonder if they know that the artist was a gay victorian jewish man who was arrested for buggery in a public urinal

btw it's Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene (1864) by Simeon Solomon, currently housed at the Tate and not on display

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btw its so crazy that solomon was praised as highly as he was for his paintings considering that solomon's father was the first emancipated jew in london and solomon's debut at the royal academy featured paintings with explicit jewish themes (he doesn't get into hellenic subjects until a few years later). he was jewish in a time and place where antisemitism was not only rampant but ingrained into the law and yet ppl still ate him up. his older siblings, abraham and rebecca, tended to focus on contemporary people and subjects but solomon was out here drawing jochebed and miriam and david dancing before the ark and using a jamaican model whose mother was born into slavery (fanny eaton) and hanging out with the pre-raphaelites and well known victorian homosexuals and falling in love in paris and italy and italy again and shaving his beard (a big no-no for victorian men) and going down to the pub to recite the bible and pretend he wrote it and getting arrested once or twice for fucking men or perhaps simply for handjobs like wow how can you not be obsessed with him he lived Such A Life.

anyway heres a painting abraham did of simeon as a baby. i think it was simon reynolds who suggested that this was painted by abraham before he left the home and the dog (who is likely a metaphorical symbol rather than an actual dog) is meant to watch over simeon in abraham's stead. abraham created a guardian for his baby brother and then immortalized him forever through his art. if that aint love then what is.