This book is not a panegyric of homosexuality. It is a scientific study led by Professor James Smalls who teaches art history in the prestigious University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Abandoning all classical clichés and sociological approaches, the author highlights the sensibility particular to homosexuals.
This book examines the process of creation and allows one to comprehend the contribution of homosexuality to the evolution of emotional perception. In a time when all barriers have been overcome, this analysis offers a new understanding of our civilisation's masterpieces.
Author(s): James Smalls
Series: Temporis collection
Publisher: Parkstone Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 276
Content......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
Homosexuality in Western Antiquity......Page 17
Comrades in Arms and the Body Beautiful......Page 21
The Hellenistic Period: The Age of Dionysos......Page 26
Greek Influence Abroad......Page 29
The Disenchantments of Sappho......Page 30
Rome from Republic to Empire......Page 32
Pompeii......Page 40
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages......Page 47
Fire and Brimstone......Page 51
Sacred Pairings in the Byzantine World......Page 52
The Romanesque Period (1000–1200)......Page 54
Intolerance and Repression (1200–1400)......Page 57
David and Jonathan......Page 58
Descent into the Inferno......Page 61
Female Homosexuality in the Middle Ages......Page 62
Homosexuality in the Italian Renaissance......Page 73
Renaissance Neoplatonism......Page 74
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)......Page 78
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)......Page 83
The Northern Renaissance......Page 91
The Later Italian Renaissance......Page 94
The Baroque Period......Page 98
Female Homosexuality in the Renaissance......Page 102
Homosexuality in the Art of The Non-Western World......Page 107
India......Page 109
China......Page 112
Japan......Page 120
Islam......Page 131
1700–1900: Towards A Homosexual Identity......Page 137
Libertines and libertinism......Page 141
Neoclassicism and Romanticism......Page 144
Realism......Page 167
Symbolism and the Leap of Imagination......Page 176
From Aestheticism to Sexology......Page 179
I. From Modernism to Stonewall (1900–1969)......Page 183
Sappho on the Left Bank......Page 187
II. From Stonewall to Postmodernism (post-1969)......Page 237
Conclusion......Page 261
Bibliography......Page 262
Index......Page 266
