To: Lorianne
Michelangelo, IIRC, was a little bit of a nut. Many of the best artists have some issues. However, these stories are nothing new. In my art history classes, some of the instructor's stated that he included some of the church elders in the boat to damnation.
There were also claims going around that he was homosexual, mostly based on the fact that his female forms displayed primarily masculine characteristics.
![](http://idisk.me.com/stephenacook/Public/notte.jpg)
Except for the breasts, this female has the characteristics of a male. As far as I know, there are no records of him engaging in homosexual conduct.
9 posted on
11/17/2008 7:44:07 PM PST by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Richard Kimball
NOT Michelangelo, but definitely painted by a screaming queen:
![](http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/65/103265-004-EC646034.jpg)
10 posted on
11/17/2008 7:52:54 PM PST by
Clemenza
(Red is the Color of Virility, Blue is the Color of Impotence)
To: Richard Kimball
There are also some historians that speculate some of Michelangelo's women were based on female stone-cutters working in the marble quarries.
16 posted on
11/17/2008 8:05:02 PM PST by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Richard Kimball
As far as I know, there are no records of him engaging in homosexual conduct. No, but in all of his art, there is not one nude woman and all of his women are very matronly looking. His men, OTOH...women agree with his taste.
18 posted on
11/17/2008 8:12:11 PM PST by
Desdemona
(Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue (I choose virtue. Values change too often).)
To: Richard Kimball
His surviving letters suggest he was bisexual in his interests, but of course, there’s no actual proof that he engaged in any kind of intercourse, so... :’)
31 posted on
11/18/2008 5:46:39 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: Richard Kimball
Those "breasts" look like implants.
Nothing real about that "woman."
36 posted on
11/18/2008 10:41:08 PM PST by
happygrl
(BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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