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Revision as of 19:20, 26 September 2013

Image of the day archive

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Beggar boys eating grapes and melon / Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. – Between circa 1645 and circa 1655. – Oil on canvas ; 146 × 104 cm. – (Munich, Germany : Alte Pinakothek ; 605).

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. His work Beggar boys eating grapes and melon is housed at The Alte Pinakothek which is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses one of the most famous collections of Old Master paintings.



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Schoolboy / Albert Anker. – Before 1875. – Oil on canvas ; 51 × 45 cm. – (Bern, Switzerland : private collection).

Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduring popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.


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Albert AUBLET - Jeunes lutteurs sur la plage au Tréport

Albert AUBLET was, among other things, a well-known Orientalist painter, who painted many scenes from Tunisia to Turkey, but he also worked often in the seaside town Le Tréport, on the northwest coast of France, where Normandy meets Picardy. He was well known in the literary and musical circles of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, illustrating works by Maupassant and others.


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Boys playing with crabs / Thomas Pollock Anshutz. – ca 1894.

Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851 – 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Anshutz was born in Newport, Kentucky in 1851. Although he experimented persistently with landscape painting, he was more well known for his portraiture, which won him numerous awards in the 1890s and 1900s. He was Co-founder of The Darby School and leader at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Anshutz was known for his portraiture work and working friendship with Thomas Eakins.


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The Warren Cup. – Roman Empire, ca 1st century. – Silver ; 11 × 11 cm. – (London, United Kingdom : British Museum, Room 70 ; 1999,0426.1).

The Warren Cup is an ancient Roman silver drinking cup decorated in relief with two images of male (Pedosexual) same-sex acts. The cup is named after its first modern owner, the collector and writer Edward Perry Warren, and was acquired by the British Museum in 1999. It is usually dated to the time of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (1st century AD).

"Images like this were not unusual in the Roman world. Some of the boys on this cup are underage by today's standards, but the Romans tolerated relationships between older and younger men. Relationships between men were part of Greek and Roman culture, from slaves to emperors, most famously the emperor Hadrian and his Greek lover, Antinous. Today such ancient images remind us that the way societies view sexuality is never fixed."


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Le prince d’Elbassan avec Toinet / Gaston Goor. – France, 1968. – Pastel ; 16,3 × 9,7 cm.


Gaston Goor (Lunéville, France, October 26, 1902–1977) was a French painter, illustrator and sculptor. Goor studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Nancy and moved to Paris in 1925. He was a highly accomplished and controversial painter of boys. His principal patron for more than 30 years was Roger Peyrefitte. Goor illustrated many of Peyrefitte books and also made a number of works on various themes, many of which decorated the walls of Peyrefitte's Paris apartment.


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Pope grec avec cinq jeunes garçons / Gaston Goor. – France, 1968. – Pastel


Gaston Goor (Lunéville, France, October 26, 1902–1977) was a French painter, illustrator and sculptor. Goor studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Nancy and moved to Paris in 1925. He was a highly accomplished and controversial painter of boys. His principal patron for more than 30 years was Roger Peyrefitte. Goor illustrated many of Peyrefitte books and also made a number of works on various themes, many of which decorated the walls of Peyrefitte's Paris apartment.



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Il giocatore di carte / Vincenzo Gemito. – 1868. – Gesso patinato ; 64 cm. – (Napoli, Italia : Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte).


Vincenzo Gemito (July 16, 1852 - March 1, 1929) was an Italian sculptor and artist. He created Il giocatore di carte (The card player), one of his most famous works, when he was 16-years-old.


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Boy asleep on his notebook / Albert Anker. – Around 1895. – (Private collection)

Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduring popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.


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The Mask Seller / Zacharie Astruc. – 1883. – Bronze. – (Paris, France : Luxembourg Gardens).

The Mask Seller is a bronze statue by the painter, poet, critic and French sculptor Zacharie Astruc, in 1883. The work is exhibited in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris. This sculpture depicts a young boy standing, wearing only a pair of figure-hugging shorts embroidered with mythological designs and a pair of sandals



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Albert AUBLET - Les petits matelots

Albert AUBLET was, among other things, a well-known Orientalist painter, who painted many scenes from Tunisia to Turkey, but he also worked often in the seaside town Le Tréport, on the northwest coast of France, where Normandy meets Picardy. He was well known in the literary and musical circles of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, illustrating works by Maupassant and others.


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Sophie ANDERSON 1881 Shepherd piper


Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 – March 10,1903) was a French-born British artist who specialized in genre painting of children and women, typically in rural settings.

Best known for her beautiful, vivid delineation of Victorian children, Sophie Anderson's oil paintings were like photographic images. With each brush stroke, this self-taught painter captured every beautiful detail of the human face.[1]


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Scugnizzo / Christian Wilhelm Allers. – 1893. – (In La bella Napoli, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1893).

Christian Wilhelm Allers (August 6, 1857 – October 19, 1915) was a German painter and printmaker. In autumn 1902, there was a scandal. Several famous persons living in Capri, were accused by some Italian newspapers of homosexuality and pederasty. Some weeks later, Allers was accused, by court. Allers managed to escape before the lawsuit began, which led to a sentence of 4½ years imprisonment, pronounced in absentia. According to Tito Fiorani (Le dimore del mito, La Conchiglia, Capri 1996, pp. 23 e 24), "Allers had distinctly homosexual tendencies, and liked to surround himself with boys, whom he often used as models".


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The BLogo is a graphic symbol for boylove that is widely used across the online boylove community. It consists of two blue intertwined triangles, one outer that symbolizes the man, and one inner that symbolizes the boy in a boylove relationship. Due to its shape, it is occasionally described as a "spirangle".

The BLogo was designed in February 1997 by Kalos in response to a online design contest sponsored by Tygyr, a teenage boylover whose Tygyrnet website was very popular at the time. Various triangle designs had been proposed but none became popular with the BL communities of the day. When Kalos submitted his design, it struck an instant chord and was adapted very quickly by Free Spirits and by many other on-line boylover organizations.


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Portrait of Tito Biondi / Frederick Rolfe (alias “Baron Corvo”). – Roma : ca 1890.

Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 – October 25, 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric. Rolfe’s s sexual preference was for late adolescents.

Towards the end of his life, he made his only explicit reference to his specific sexual age preference, in one of the Venice letters to Charles Masson Fox, in which he declared: "My preference was for the 16, 17, 18 and large."

Grant Richards, in his 'Memories of a Misspent Youth' (1932), recalls 'Frederick Baron Corvo' at Parson's Pleasure in Oxford - where scholars could bathe naked - "surveying the yellow flesh tints of youth with unbecoming satisfaction".


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Sophie ANDERSON 1881 Shepherd piper


Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 – March 10,1903) was a French-born British artist who specialized in genre painting of children and women, typically in rural settings.

Best known for her beautiful, vivid delineation of Victorian children, Sophie Anderson's oil paintings were like photographic images. With each brush stroke, this self-taught painter captured every beautiful detail of the human face.[2]


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Boy sleeping in the hay / Albert Anker. – 1897. – Oil on canvas; 55 × 71 cm. – (Bâle, Suisse : Musée des Beaux-Arts).

Albert Anker|Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduring popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.


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The offering of Abel to the Lord / Carl Aarsleff. – 1893. – Bronze ; 196,5 × 106 × 104 cm. – (Copenhague, Danemark : Statens Museum for Kunst ; KMS5324).

Carl Vilhelm Oluf Peter Aarsleff (14 August 1852 - 4 January 1918) was a Danish sculptor, He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1901 and from 1914 to 1917 served as its director. He is best known for a number of statues and statuettes of young adults.


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Small Italian beggar / Albert Anker. -Watercolour over pencil; 27 × 18 cm. – (Private collection).

Albert Anker|Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduring popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.


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Unknown/ Édouard Agneessens. – Oil on wood ; 30,5 × 43,2 cm. – (Private collection).

Edouard Agneessens (24 August 1842 – 20 August 1885) was a Belgian painter born in Brussels. He studied under Jean-François Portaels from 1859, and in 1869 won the Prix de Rome. In 1868, he was one of the founding members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.


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Old hut in Spreydon : Chris + [???], New Zealand /Christian Wilhelm Allers. – Spreydon (New Zealand), 1911. – Pastel and charcoal drawing ; 67 × 100 cm. – (Private collection).

Christian Wilhelm Allers (August 6, 1857 – October 19, 1915) was a German painter and printmaker. In autumn 1902, there was a scandal. Several famous persons living in Capri, were accused by some Italian newspapers of homosexuality and pederasty. Some weeks later, Allers was accused, by court. Allers managed to escape before the lawsuit began, which led to a sentence of 4½ years imprisonment, pronounced in absentia. According to Tito Fiorani (Le dimore del mito, La Conchiglia, Capri 1996, pp. 23 e 24), "Allers had distinctly homosexual tendencies, and liked to surround himself with boys, whom he often used as models".


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Kiss/ Briseis Painter. –circa 480 BC. – Cup ceramic, red-figure pottery;(Louvre, Paris, France).

Kiss is an example of Greek art dating from around 480 BC. This ceramic cup by the Briseis Painter is housed at the Louvre in Paris France. It is a Kylix (drinking cup), "a type of wine-drinking cup with a broad relatively shallow body raised on a stem from a foot and usually with two horizontal handles disposed symmetrically.


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Leap frog / Albert Anker. – 1866. – Oil on canvas.

Albert Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduring popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.



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Le roi des moutards / Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Antigna.

Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna (March 7, 1817 – February 26, 1878) was a French painter. After living in the poor quarter of the Île Saint-Louis in Paris, he would incorporate images of the suffering and burden of urban poor into his works. By the 1848 Revolution, Antigna was devoted to the Realist style, and continued to paint in this manner until c. 1860 when he began to produce paintings in the Naturalist style.



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Boy asleep on his notebook / Albert Anker. – Around 1895. – (Private collection)

Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduring popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.


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Scugnizzo / Christian Wilhelm Allers. – 1893. – (In La bella Napoli, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1893).

Christian Wilhelm Allers (August 6, 1857 – October 19, 1915) was a German painter and printmaker. In autumn 1902, there was a scandal. Several famous persons living in Capri, were accused by some Italian newspapers of homosexuality and pederasty. Some weeks later, Allers was accused, by court. Allers managed to escape before the lawsuit began, which led to a sentence of 4½ years imprisonment, pronounced in absentia. According to Tito Fiorani (Le dimore del mito, La Conchiglia, Capri 1996, pp. 23 e 24), "Allers had distinctly homosexual tendencies, and liked to surround himself with boys, whom he often used as models".


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Albert AUBLET - Les petits matelots

Albert AUBLET was, among other things, a well-known Orientalist painter, who painted many scenes from Tunisia to Turkey, but he also worked often in the seaside town Le Tréport, on the northwest coast of France, where Normandy meets Picardy. He was well known in the literary and musical circles of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, illustrating works by Maupassant and others.


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Man with Ephebe / Unknown. –circa 6th century BC. – Ceramic cup – (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Man with ephebe is an example of Greek art dating from the 6th century BC. This ceramic cup by an unknown artist is housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - from the collection of Edward Perry Warren.


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José Ramón Lafita from the film Brecha

Brecha is the second of Ivan Noel's films. It is darker, more suspenseful then his prior film En tu Ausencia. Filmed is Spain with no budget using borrowed equipment, Brecha masterfully captures the essence of village life.


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Albert AUBLET - Les petits matelots

Albert AUBLET was, among other things, a well-known Orientalist painter, who painted many scenes from Tunisia to Turkey, but he also worked often in the seaside town Le Tréport, on the northwest coast of France, where Normandy meets Picardy. He was well known in the literary and musical circles of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, illustrating works by Maupassant and others.


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Pope grec avec cinq jeunes garçons / Gaston Goor. – France, 1968. – Pastel


Gaston Goor (Lunéville, France, October 26, 1902–1977) was a French painter, illustrator and sculptor. Goor studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Nancy and moved to Paris in 1925. He was a highly accomplished and controversial painter of boys. His principal patron for more than 30 years was Roger Peyrefitte. Goor illustrated many of Peyrefitte books and also made a number of works on various themes, many of which decorated the walls of Peyrefitte's Paris apartment.