Gay Art History

Gay Art History Links - General 

History of Homoeroticism

Rictor Norton's 1998 History of Homoeroticism - No images, but a good overview of the subject

Androphile

This nice site has a museum section with homoerotic artworks reproduced from around the world. The selection is limited, but the art quality is nice and the information mostly accurate - have a nice section as well on the Ganymede images that were once on the Budweiser beer advertisements in the U.S.

Man Without Clothes

A nice take on male nudity in history with some galleries attached - also has some essays with images on the nature of art

Homoerotic Art Museum

A large collection of homoerotic art from around the world - the images are not clickable or able to be enlarged and the information is sometimes suspect, but feel free to browse and then do separate research on an artwork if you like it enough - odds are there are higher resolution copies online elsewhere

Fallen Warriors

Fallen Warriors as Mass Media Stars: Representations of Heike Monogatari in the Edo Period of Japan

Schwules Museum

The Gay Museum in Berlin - they have exhibitions of gay artwork regularly - check their site for the latest

Gay History in Postage Stamps

An interesting site with many galleries of postage stamps with male homoerotic images

Fine Art for Men Gallery

A gallery selling homoerotic images, some reproduction, others original

Homobilia

A gallery selling homoerotic artworks, both past and present - some nice 19th & 20th century vintage ephemera and photographs

18th Century French Homoerotica

Beaux enfans de Sodome :
images homosexuelles du XVIIIe siècle

Male Art from Before

My Flickr Group of Male Art from Before 1915 - Not much information, just a nice collection of men in art from folks within Flickr

Gay Art Bibliography

Rictor Norton's small bibliography on Gay Art History

Queer History Links

A huge collection of links related to queer history and homoeroticism

Gay Paintings Magazine

A strange yet large site consisting of mostly contemporary artwork - a large selection of links & many images - small areas of gay art history - including one on Turkish art and another on Thomas Eakins - they require many clicks to get to the full text & images though

Gay Arts Galleries

Apparently a commercial gallery connected with the Gay Paintings Magazine with a small mix of gay artists' galleries - biographical info & some images

Gay Presence in Art History

Making trouble for art history: the queer case of Girodet - We're Here: Gay and Lesbian Presence in Art and Art History

Art Journal - Winter 1996

Queer Caucus for Art

the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Caucus
for Art, Artists & Historians

Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation

Mostly contemporary art gallery in New York who occasionally have older works

They have an enormous collection of links to current gay artists around the world and gay links in general

Delft Boys Homo Web Museum

A dreadful site with a lot of images - mostly gay porn, but some classic works as well - almost no information about the artworks and the quality is not so good - dig at your own risk

Hall Carpenter Archives

GLBT Archives in the U.K. with extensive links to collections in the U.K. and the rest of Europe

Wickford Glyptothek

scant site with a few nice collections - for example: Pediment sculptures from the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina

Mother of all Art History Pages

not gay, but really huge

Gay Art History Links - Subjects 

Specific Art History Subjects

Antinoos / Antinous

An incredibly organized and detailed site cataloging all of the sculpture and depictions of Roman Emperor Hadrian's lover Antinoos (Antinous) around the globe

Saint Sebastian Iconography

Very nicely done site with a collection of Sebastian images from around the world and throughout history

Saint Sebastian Squidoo

My other Squidoo page on Sebastian - tons of images and links

Ganymede Squidoo

My other Squidoo page on Ganymede and his images around the world

Antinoos & Hadrian

A nice site outlining their relationship - a few images

Apollo

Specifically the Apollo Belvedere sculpture - interesting collection of images of the statue in other mediums and a brief overview

Apollo

Brief Wikipedia bio of the Apollo Belvedere statue

Apollo

List of Apollos image in western art - nice collection, but no actual images unless you're inside the University of Haifa - so you'll have to copy the titles and search elsewhere

Apollo

Wikipedia site - lots of basic info on Apollo as a god, and good bibliography at the bottom of him in art

Harmodius & Aristogeiton

Wikipedia - basic information and some links

smaller bio here:
http://www.livius.org/tt-tz/tyrannicides/tyrannicides.html

Antinoos Squidoo

Same information from the Antinoo & Antinous squidoo lenses

Gay Art History Links - Artists 

Specific Artists

Henry Scott Tuke

A brief overview of the life and art of Henry Scott Tuke

Henry Scott Tuke 2

A nice site with many of Tuke's paintings reproduced

John Singer Sargent

An amazing website with almost all of Sargent's works reproduced and wonderful biographical information as well - many of his male nudes are included here

J. C. Leyendecker

One of the few places online to find information and images of J.C. Leyendecker

J.C. Leyendecker 2

The other place online for Leyendecker information - lots of Saturday Evening Post covers listed here

Michelangelo

Basic site with nice biographical information - not so many pictures though

Michelangelo - Wikipedia

Wikipedia collection of info on Michelangelo - nice basic image collection included

Michelangelo Sculpture

Nice collection of images of Michelangelo's sculpture

Michelangelo Drawings

The current British Museum exhibition on Michelangelo's Drawings

Michelangelo

The Artcyclopedia collection of image links for Michelangelo's works

Caravaggio

Good basic collection of artwork images

Caravaggio

The Artcyclopedia collection of image links for Caravaggio's works

Caravaggio

The CGFA site's collection of Caravaggio images

Caravaggio

A biography and 61 of his artworks - via Olga's Gallery

Simeon Solomon

Victorian painter convicted for homosexual acts - Biography; annotated bibliography of works by him and reviews of works about him; links to websites illustrating his art

Gay Art History Links - Photography 

F. Holland Day

Brief bio of F. Holland Day

Horst P. Horst

The first photographer to have an exhibit at the Louvre - His official gallery site - Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin

another gallery with extensive bio & photos:
http://danielazoulaygallery.com/horst_phorst/

Horst P. Horst

Wikipedia information - basic bio & list of some works

Dear Friends Exhibition Site

Exhibition site for "Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918"

Herbert List

Wonderful photographer from the early-mid 20th century - Fahey Klein Gallery has many of his images for sale here

Herbert List

Basic Wikipedia bio & list of his published works & compilations

Gay Art History Links - Historians / Writers / Collectors 

Historians, Writers & Collectors of note

John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds is known as the first "modern" historian of male homosexuality and especially in the visual arts
An enormous site with full biography, writings, criticisms, poetry and links

Edward Perry Warren

Art Collection for whom the "Warren Cup" is named after - nicely fleshed out site with biography, bibliography & press about him

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) in his monumental History of Ancient Art put forth the idea that Greek art was the touchstone of all art irrespective of place or time - Nice biography & list of works