I'll start us off with the David, just to give the art historians among us something to start from. I love statues. Especially photographing them. I admire sculpture so much. Blows my mind, really. Anyway, I went to Italy one summer and it's such an erotic country. All those statues and their beautiful bodies kept me in a constant state of arousal, as did some of the men, and the pizza, and the Arno. Anyway, uhhhhhhh, hot statues please!
Apparently OP is not a size queen.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 25, 2020 5:55 PM |
Not quite a statue (so shoot me already) but lots of hot men in Russian workers' friezes.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 25, 2020 5:55 PM |
Laocoön and his sons. A muscular, mature man with a beard. One of those things I saw at an early age and knew I wasn’t like most of the other boys. Yeah, I know it’s about suffering and stuff but I guess I figured I could alleviate some of it.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 25, 2020 5:57 PM |
Incidentally, great idea for a thread OP.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 25, 2020 5:58 PM |
perhaps not a best thread for DL
“Greeks associated small and non-erect penises with moderation, which was one of the key virtues that formed their view of ideal masculinity,” explains classics professor Andrew Lear, who has taught at Harvard, Columbia and NYU and runs tours focused on gay history. “There is the contrast between the small, non-erect penises of ideal men (heroes, gods, nude athletes etc) and the over-size, erect penises of Satyrs (mythic half-goat-men, who are drunkards and wildly lustful) and various non-ideal men. Decrepit, elderly men, for instance, often have large penises.” Grant Mitchell/ Athens Archaeological Museum/ Creative Commons Statue of the satyr Silenus, a companion of the god of wine.
Similar ideas are reflected in ancient Greek literature, says Lear. For example, in Aristophanes’ Clouds a large penis is listed alongside a “pallid complexion,” a “narrow chest,” and “great lewdness” as one of the characteristics of un-athletic and dishonorable Athenian youths.
Only grotesque, foolish men who were ruled by lust and sexual urges had large penises in ancient Greece. Art history blogger Ellen Oredsson notes on her site that statues of the era emphasized balance and idealism.
“The ideal Greek man was rational, intellectual and authoritative,” she wrote. “He may still have had a lot of sex, but this was unrelated to his penis size, and his small penis allowed him to remain coolly logical.”
There are several theories as to why the “ideal” penis size developed from small in ancient Greece to large today. Lear suggests that perhaps the rise of porn, or an ideological push to subject men to the same body shaming that women typically face, are behind the modern emphasis on having a large penis.
But Lear adds that in both societies, ideas about penis size are completely “unrelated to reality or aesthetics.” Contrary to popular myth, there’s no clear evidence that a large penis correlates with sexual satisfaction. Nor is there proof that a small penis is a sign of moderation and rationality.
“Greek men saw each other nude all the time in the gymnasium, so they must have been aware, at some level, that not every admirably moderate man had a small penis, and not every immoderate, cowardly, drunken man a large one,” adds Lear.
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by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 25, 2020 6:10 PM |
Le génie du mal or The Genius of Evil, known informally as Lucifer or The Lucifer of Liège, by Guillaume Geefs.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 25, 2020 6:19 PM |
ditto to Laocoon, I remember getting a hard on in Art History when the professor put the slide up. Hot daddy with an amazing body, and the two lithe boys that get to be there with him.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 25, 2020 6:27 PM |
the two golden young men, to be so close to Laocoon’s firm nude body, and be near his adult manly penis, with no shame, just love
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 25, 2020 6:29 PM |
Here's another thing about that statuary. It's theorized that they weren't always white in color. They were painted. I'd have love to have seen the one of David all painted. I picture slightly olive colored skin and hazel eyes. sort of like mine.
Only difference whilst I too am majority Mediterranean is I also have hair everywhere. I chalk it up to having 250 Neandthal variants in my DNA.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 25, 2020 6:33 PM |
R10, you're thinking of ancient Egyptian statues. They were painted. Michelangelo - who sculpted the David - sculpted out of incredibly high-quality pieces of marble, and he didn't paint his work.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 25, 2020 6:58 PM |
"Only grotesque, foolish men who were ruled by lust and sexual urges had large penises in ancient Greece."
Evidence that ancient Greece was not only completely ruled by men, in terms of politics, fashion, social mores, it was ruled by Tops.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 25, 2020 8:40 PM |
I always loved this Roman statue, "The Dying Gaul".
Greek and Roman art usually depicted Greek and Roman men with carefully styled hair, smooth faces and bodies, and features ironed into whatever was fashionable at the time. But this statue is of a man with shaggy hair and a pornstache, as well as lots of beautifully displayed muscles, he just looks butcher than his civilized contemporaries.
Pity about the size, though.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 25, 2020 8:44 PM |
R10 and R11, ancient Greek and Roman statues were painted, same as Egyptian, art historians have done molecular analysis of microscopic paint fragments to show us what the things originally looked like. And all the re-creations look absolutely hideous.
Renaissance sculptors used plain white marble, because they were trying to imitate the ancient Greek and Roman statues visible in their day. What they saw had either been weathering or buried for centuries, which had gotten rid of all the tacky paint, so as far as they knew white marble was the only way to go.
Oh and BTW, the statuary on the Gothic cathedrals of the middle ages were also painted.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 25, 2020 8:49 PM |
Arno Breker's stuff - though he did a lot of Nazi commissions.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 25, 2020 9:07 PM |
I like this statue of Pan in Oslo, Norway. No city in the US would dare put up a statue of a naked man with an erection in their town square!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 25, 2020 9:13 PM |
The Farnese "Hercules" is pretty hot.
Am I remembering correctly, isn't there a statue of Hercules where his elbow is resting on a short column?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 25, 2020 9:14 PM |
R15, that's absolutely right. But Michelangelo and other Renaissance sculptors didn't paint their statues, and the David was not painted. That's all I was trying to say. You seem to want to refute me, but we agree on this.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 25, 2020 9:20 PM |
Please, who posted that nazi shit? Seriously, there's plenty of really hot statues, don't bother us with that crap. Yes, R16, that was for you.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 25, 2020 9:26 PM |
There's a troll who sneaks his Nazi propaganda into completely unrelated threads. FF his ass.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 25, 2020 9:34 PM |
Your mother gives head to statues.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 25, 2020 9:39 PM |
Sculpture scene from "Pride and Prejudice" shot at Chatsworth, the ancestral home of the Duke of Devonshire. During the extras on the DVD, the director, Joe Something or Other, stated that each one was worth in excess of $20 Million. I'm especially partial to the "Veiled Lady" sculpture.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 25, 2020 9:40 PM |
Much of Arno Breker's work is homoerotic. As I mentioned in my post, he received a lot of Nazi commissions, but he was a successful sculptor before the Third Reich and (unlike someone like Leni Riefenstahl) continued to receive international commissions for the rest of his life (he died in 1991). There is also an Arno Breker museum in Germany that was opened in 1985 - Riefenstahl's works, on the other hand, are prohibited in Germany. I am not some Nazi troll.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 25, 2020 9:49 PM |
I always thought the Pieta depiction of Jesus as quite beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 25, 2020 10:02 PM |
He's covered-up, but maybe this guy. Center piece (?) of Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 25, 2020 10:14 PM |
That would be Neptune, R28
I've always been partial to Herakles the Archer by Bourdelle
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 26, 2020 1:58 AM |
Angel at the Sepulchre by Erastus Down Palmer.
He's strong and handsome and very hot.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 26, 2020 2:05 AM |
Threads like this are why I love the Datalounge!
A perfect mixture of erudition and horndoggery.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 26, 2020 2:10 AM |
Thanks R5 for Lear’s analysis.
Relating statuary penis size to Greek ideals makes a lot of sense. Our obsession with large penises may similarly be linked to capitalist ideal of the bottom line and the bottomless greed.
One wishes Lear were on here.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 26, 2020 2:10 AM |
All the classics have micro peens. Why is this?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 26, 2020 2:18 AM |
R32, in our case it's not bottomless greed, it's *bottom* greed.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 26, 2020 2:19 AM |
R33 - for crying out loud, read the thread. There's a response all about this.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 26, 2020 2:21 AM |
It also occurs to me, r5 et al, that the purpose of the commissioning of these statues needs to be taken in account. Perhaps Lear talks about it?
For works that are paid for by the people in authority and commissioned from the finest artists, they were meant to project power, awe, respect, admiration, worship etc I would imagine.
It would not do to display large penises or anything that would be considered pornographic or elicit schoolboy titters. Private collections of pornography in ancient cultures show large erections in lascivious depictions that are meant to excite carnal desire.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 26, 2020 2:25 AM |
One more observation and I’ll stop.
R24 is a work of vanity and not of art. It is a pale (sic) imitation of an ideal that is counter to the society of the artist. It is an untroubled work with. I character and no tension. In fact its value in currency is calculated and displayed. England after all was a nation of shopkeepers (Napoleon) with no mythology of its own (Forster).
Compare r24 to the Greek statues it copies from and aspires to. There is a superficiality in the English work. It is the work of a good craftsman. In the forearms of Jesus in pieta r27 one can even see the veins “under” the skin.
There probably were inferior commonplace works like r24 in the houses of minor officials in Greek times too. And pornography. Or pron as we’d have it.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 26, 2020 2:36 AM |
I saw this photos of Tom Daley a few years back and immediately thought of Rodin's Age of Bronze, so I made a panorama of the two.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 26, 2020 3:12 AM |
Rodin's "The Age of Bronze" fun facts
"Rodin had a Belgian soldier pose for the statue, keeping photographs which survive (in the Rodin Museum).
"When the statue was first exhibited at the 1877 Salon in Paris, France, Rodin was falsely accused of having made the statue by casting a living model, a charge that was vigorously denied. This charge benefited Rodin though, because people were so eager to see this for themselves."
i still like to believe that this was "life cast" (i.e, that Rodin applied wet plaster to the actual body of the belgian soldier.)
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 26, 2020 5:25 AM |
R41 - I was going to post Kouros! (I used to have the cologne too!)
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 26, 2020 6:13 AM |
There are many versions of "The Wrestlers" but this one is my favorite.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 26, 2020 1:18 PM |
[quote]All those statues and their beautiful bodies kept me in a constant state of arousal
Pics please.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 26, 2020 1:20 PM |
So the janitors got busy with a chisel and.....well, the teachers weren't offended anymore. The next day there was a sign on the statue that said: "Miss Sydney was here."
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 26, 2020 2:13 PM |
R43 is forbidden to me
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 26, 2020 2:20 PM |
I liked the curly hair. Did Grecians have curly hair back then, or is the curly hair symbolic of perhaps youth or something deific/transcendent? EDUCATE ME, NERDS!
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 26, 2020 4:27 PM |
They way they captured male beauty... FUCK. The feminine form barely mattered back then, but the men. I bet it's the muscles. Much more interesting to sculpt. More definition, and therefore skill required to emulate.
Men wrestling is a common visual theme throughout various forms of art and I LOOOOOOOVE it, cause you can go to museums and see them and all the straights hold their chins and go, [italic]hmmmmm[/italic], while I'm like, [italic]IS THERE ROOM FOR ONE MORE?![/italic]
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 26, 2020 4:36 PM |
Canova's Perseus is actually quite underwhelming from the front, and I don't mean because of the tinymeat, I mean the under-defined muscles and the overly stylized pubic hair, the dull expression, all of it. He's a much more interesting sculpture from behind.
A metaphor for something, I'm sure.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 14, 2020 6:45 AM |
[quote]That would be Neptune, R28.
Nope. The central statue of the Trevi fountain is Oceanus.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 14, 2020 6:46 AM |
R53, it is kind of cool, restrained, classical, correct, etc. but I like it. Kind of elegant.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 14, 2020 6:51 AM |
Excellent choice, R6.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 14, 2020 6:54 AM |
i also like the one of jesus in his moms lap, at the vatican......reverent yet erotic
PIETA
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 14, 2020 7:16 AM |
Jason with the Golden Fleece - Bertel Thorvaldsen
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 14, 2020 7:27 AM |
I like him. Archimèdes, Simon-Louis Boquet, 1752 Musée du Louvre, Paris
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 14, 2020 4:04 PM |
[quote] All those statues and their beautiful bodies kept me in a constant state of arousal, as did some of the men, and the pizza, and the Arno.
I have to say, as far as sexually arousal goes with regards to rivers, the Arno did nothing for me. Maybe I'm unusual that way.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 14, 2020 4:10 PM |
Marble statue of a youthful Hercules A.D. 69–96
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 14, 2020 4:21 PM |
Monument to the Fallen - Sculptor Francesco Paolo Como
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 14, 2020 4:24 PM |
Walker Hancock - “Angel of the Resurrection” the Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial,1952
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 14, 2020 4:44 PM |
One of my professors told the class that Donatello's David was "obviously the work of a homosexual"....
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 14, 2020 6:58 PM |
I have to say that the effeminacy of that David statue turns me off, R69. Yes, I am a bad gay.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 14, 2020 7:01 PM |
Yeah, not a good look in 2020.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 14, 2020 7:20 PM |
Franz Metzner, Austrian Sculptor, 1870-1919
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 14, 2020 8:44 PM |
Le Désespoir, Jean-Joseph Perraud, 1869 Musée d'Orsay, Paris
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 14, 2020 8:52 PM |
Torso of a Hellenistic Ruler (or Hero), marble, Roman, after original around 160-140 BC. Altes Museum Berlin
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 14, 2020 9:18 PM |
R61 is Young Athlete by Josef Müllner, 1921. You can actually read the sign identifying it on google street view.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 14, 2020 9:39 PM |
I like this Diadoumenos in a museum in Athens more than the one at the Met.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 14, 2020 9:47 PM |
The hot wetness of Neptune wasn’t found wanting.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 14, 2020 10:26 PM |
The Belvedere Torso, in the Vatican Museum, from Rome, 1st c. BCE. This was apparently once a statue of the hero Ajax.
It was so beloved by Michelangelo that many of the paintings he did in the Sistine Chapel are based on it. (During his lifetimne, it was so associated with him that it was jokingly dubbed "School of Michelangelo"). it also hugely influenced Raphael as well.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 14, 2020 10:29 PM |
Should have called this thread "cum gutters on parade"....
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 14, 2020 10:33 PM |
The butt on the man in the lower section of the Mechanics' Monument on Market Street in San Francisco has been mucha dmired by gay men over the decades.
Apparently the sculptor did not intend for it to look so homoerotic.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 14, 2020 10:42 PM |
Statue of Alexander the Great in Istanbul Archaeology Museum
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 14, 2020 10:50 PM |
Yugoslav partisan memorial, Tivoli Park, Ljubljana, Slovenia
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 14, 2020 10:53 PM |
I read somewhere that Greeks considered muscular glutes on a man to be representative of his virility, more so than the size of his genitalia.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 14, 2020 10:53 PM |
R89 - a big penis was considered vulgar and not in step with the ideals of Greek beauty. That’s what I tell everyone when I slip out of my under garments.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 14, 2020 11:04 PM |
Stadio dei Marmi, Foro Italico, Rome, 1931
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 14, 2020 11:04 PM |
Good choice, R14. So good, in fact, that I'm re-posting a picture of the Dying Gaul. I agree with your assessment of the statue's appeal. In addition, I love the lean, naturally athletic musculature, which is more appealing to me than some of the idealized classical sculptures that depict subjects who appear to have been the gymrats of antiquity.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 14, 2020 11:10 PM |
Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, Antonio Canova, 1806
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 14, 2020 11:12 PM |
The Dead Pearl Diver by Benjamin Paul Akers.
The detail on the net is so amazing it adds to the sensuousness.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 14, 2020 11:22 PM |
Los Portadores de la Antorcha ("The Torch Bearers") by Anna Hyatt Huntington 1955
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 14, 2020 11:22 PM |
Love the willy covering, R91.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 15, 2020 12:06 AM |
Neptune was some alpha daddy back in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 15, 2020 1:57 AM |
[quote]Neptune was some alpha daddy back in the day
The baroque drama of it all, fighting sea monsters!
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 15, 2020 2:04 AM |
Atlantes cut out of grey granite after the models by sculptor Alexander Terebenev at the New Hermitage in Saint-Petersburg.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 15, 2020 5:49 AM |
An obvious choice. Just block out the nude woman.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 15, 2020 6:04 AM |
All the statues on Piazza della Signoria in Florence are hot
by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 15, 2020 6:10 AM |
My fave Giambolgna's Mercury aka FTD Florist.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | September 15, 2020 7:09 AM |
Allegory Statue of the Holy Roman Empire, Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe - Petit Parc du Château de Versailles
by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 15, 2020 7:22 AM |
Yeah but he's a little too scrawny to be really hot, R105 / Sanjay.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 15, 2020 7:22 AM |
I really like that one, R106. Thanks.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | September 15, 2020 7:23 AM |
Apollo attended by Nymphs by Girardon in the gardens of Versailles
More beautiful than hot.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | September 15, 2020 7:28 AM |
Neptune is a hot daddy.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | September 15, 2020 7:36 AM |
[quote]That would be Neptune, [R28]
No, r29. You need to brush up on your Greek mythology. The central figure at the Trevi Fountain is not Neptune, but Oceanus.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | September 15, 2020 10:07 AM |
This is Neptune at the Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | September 15, 2020 10:09 AM |
And this is Oceanus at the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | September 15, 2020 10:11 AM |
Amazing. Who were these sculptors??!! No one has surpassed them in all these years. There is no such thing as progress in art.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | September 15, 2020 10:25 AM |
I want Neptune in me quite deeply.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | September 15, 2020 11:18 AM |
Hot is in the eye of the beholder, but for sheer homoeroticism, I think it would be hard to top (no pun intended) Michelangelo's Dying Slave.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | September 15, 2020 12:39 PM |
Did these sculptors use live models?
by Anonymous | reply 118 | September 15, 2020 6:33 PM |
Wouldn't a sculpture take too long for you to use a live model? Painting is usually much faster.
I believe the ancient Romans copied a lot of Greek statues they liked.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | September 15, 2020 6:46 PM |
Modern sculptors also make a maquette first.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | September 15, 2020 6:50 PM |
Aw. The naked guy has a sensitive side. How sweet.
The child Oedipus revived by the shepherd Phorbas by Antoine-Denis Chaudet
by Anonymous | reply 121 | September 15, 2020 8:34 PM |
They loved puny cocklets in the olden days.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | September 15, 2020 9:12 PM |
R121 that shepherd's bush is executed deliciously.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | September 16, 2020 2:34 AM |
I remember seeing a lot of dicks at the Met years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | September 16, 2020 2:40 AM |
Hahaha. Do you mean penises on statues or pretentious, annoying visitors, R124?
by Anonymous | reply 125 | September 16, 2020 2:47 AM |
R17 I'm shocked, amazed and delighted. I guess the patina is affected by strangers fondling him.
Sydney has its own satyr near the Opera House but his flaccid penis is obscured his left leg.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | September 16, 2020 3:00 AM |
R125 To be clear, I meant the statues. I mean A LOT of dicks. I don't know if it was a dick expo or dick month, but it was getting me a bit hot and bothered. Especially seeing a dick on a 9 ft statue that is in proportion.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | September 16, 2020 3:06 AM |
I agree, R123.
When I first saw a pic of this statue, I thought he looked like a naked construction worker because of the hat.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | September 16, 2020 3:07 AM |
Oh, I see, R127. Must have been fun.
I remember hearing about the Masculine / Masculine exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay. It was about the male nude in art. I don't know if it travelled to the U.S.
Overall, it seems to me the French are more reluctant to show male nudes in all their glory, ie. penises. The Italians seem to have no hang ups about it.
I would think the Vatican Museums would have tons of phalluses because of all the statues from Ancient Greece and Rome, unless many of them have fig leaves added later on by prudish clerics.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | September 16, 2020 3:16 AM |
Do you remember what the name of the 9 foot statue was, R127?
by Anonymous | reply 130 | September 16, 2020 4:14 AM |
Interesting R129 that the French would have hangups on nudity. You also just reinforce my desire to visit Italy for myriad penis and non-penis related reasons.
R130, you're asking a lot from me! Lol, it was years ago so I don't remember the name, but I believe it was a statue of a shiny black material. I don't think it was black marble because I don't remember seeing any veins on it. It was solid black. But I think it was a Grecian soldier or some sort of warrior.
Seemed nicely endowed for a statue.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | September 16, 2020 4:26 AM |
The Genius of Electricity by Evelyn Beatrice Longman 1916
by Anonymous | reply 132 | September 16, 2020 6:51 AM |
Antonio Canova, Theseus and the Minotaur, 1781-3
by Anonymous | reply 133 | September 16, 2020 7:19 AM |
Mercury as the Roman god of commerce, 1780, by Augustin Pajou
by Anonymous | reply 134 | September 16, 2020 7:25 AM |
Achilles statue, Achilleion Palace, Corfu, Greece
by Anonymous | reply 135 | September 16, 2020 7:55 AM |
[quote] that shepherd's bush is executed deliciously.
HOLLAND PARK!
by Anonymous | reply 136 | September 16, 2020 11:52 AM |
The Barberini Faun looks like he just got a blow job. Supposedly, he was thrown down from Hadrian’s mausoleum (now Castel Sant’Angelo) during the Sack of Rome in 410, hopefully crushing an invading German or two. I love the statue. The whole Munich Antikensammlung is awesome.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | September 16, 2020 12:53 PM |
R26, The Barberini Faun looks like he just got a blow job. Supposedly, he was thrown down from Hadrian’s mausoleum (now Castel Sant’Angelo) during the Sack of Rome in 410, hopefully crushing an invading German or two. I love the statue. The whole Munich Antikensammlung is awesome.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | September 16, 2020 1:52 PM |
[quote]Interesting R129 that the French would have hangups on nudity. You also just reinforce my desire to visit Italy for myriad penis and non-penis related reasons.
Just my uninformed opinion. I'm definitely not an art expert. All the Italian paintings of the Madonna and Child make me uncomfortable. I'm not interested in seeing Christ's willy.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | September 17, 2020 12:11 AM |
Antikythera Ephebe
His eyes are spooky but the rest of him is nice.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | September 17, 2020 12:15 AM |
La Marseillaise by François Rude, Arc de Triomphe
The young man forgot his clothes.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | September 17, 2020 12:32 AM |
R140 - the baby Jesus peen in those renaissance paintings actually had religious significance - proving that Jesus was equally man and God.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | September 17, 2020 12:38 AM |
David by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1623, Galleria Borghese.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | September 17, 2020 12:42 AM |
Oh, I see, R143. Never thought of that. Thanks for the info.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | September 17, 2020 12:43 AM |
The Rape of Proserpina by Bernini.
Renaissance and Baroque sculptors seemed to be into rape.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | September 17, 2020 12:47 AM |
Headless bronze dude from the Greek and Roman collection of the Met.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | September 17, 2020 12:51 AM |
David would not have had a foreskin.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | September 17, 2020 12:59 AM |
Very good point. I guess Michelangelo wanted to give Italians something they were familiar with.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | September 17, 2020 1:05 AM |
Why wouldn’t David have been circumcised? When did that custom begin for Jews?
by Anonymous | reply 151 | September 17, 2020 1:08 AM |
Fuck, I’m blonde.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | September 17, 2020 1:08 AM |
She's become a kitschy cliche, but the Statue of Liberty is really quite beautiful. She's modeled after the (now nonexistent) Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Severn Wonders of the Ancient World.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | September 17, 2020 1:24 AM |
[quote] Renaissance and Baroque sculptors seemed to be into rape.
It’s not RAPE rape. In the context of these sculptures, the word “rape” is used according to an archaic definition meaning “to seize and take away by force.“
by Anonymous | reply 154 | September 17, 2020 2:43 AM |
Leda actually ENJOYED the time spent with the swan. So it was all ok.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | September 17, 2020 2:49 AM |
Lol, R155.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | September 17, 2020 3:09 AM |
I agree R153. The voluminous robes of the Statue of Liberty look rather dumpy but it is a very handsome head.
Quite masculine.
Virginia Woolf said the ideal of beauty was 'like a Greek statue' with a 'straight nose and straight brows'. I don't know if she was thinking of a particular Greek statue.
Does anyone here have any ideas on that subject??
by Anonymous | reply 157 | September 17, 2020 3:10 AM |
[quote]It’s not RAPE rape. In the context of these sculptures, the word “rape” is used according to an archaic definition meaning “to seize and take away by force.“
Yes, but surely men were abducting women to have sex with them against their will. In the case of Proserpina, it was probably a metaphor for the changing of the seasons. In the case of rape of the Sabine women, it was because Roman men wanted to have wives and to produce children. It sounds like RAPE rape to me.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | September 17, 2020 3:25 AM |
Theseus and the Minotaur by François-Léon Sicard, 1926. Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park, in central Sydney.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | September 17, 2020 3:27 AM |
What happens when it's [bold]RAPE[/bold] RAPE rape?
by Anonymous | reply 160 | September 17, 2020 3:27 AM |
or [italic]RAPE[/italic] [bold]RAPE[/bold] RAPE rape?
by Anonymous | reply 161 | September 17, 2020 3:28 AM |
Excellent choice, R159. Thanks.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | September 17, 2020 3:29 AM |
[quote]David would not have had a foreskin.
I was going to say that the statue of David represented the Republic of Florence but according to wikipedia, it was given that symbolic meaning after it was completed.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | September 17, 2020 3:31 AM |
R159 The Archibald Fountain in Sydney has another nude. It is Apollo, I think, but his hips are disproportionately narrow that they render him ugly.
The irony is that this park has three male nudes with exposed penises while the government was at the same time banning works by Bertrand Russell, A.S. Neill and D.H. Lawrence.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | September 17, 2020 3:50 AM |
I saw David when I was on vacation years ago; he's much taller than you think he will be. Also, his penis is rather small for his height.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | September 17, 2020 4:05 AM |
Sculpture by Amandus Adamson, 1903. Eliseyev Emporium, St Petersburg, Russia
by Anonymous | reply 168 | September 17, 2020 4:05 AM |
These statuesque statues are superb.
If I went to the Louvre I'd be hard pressed to restrain myself from clutching their thighs and caressing their smooth buttocks.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | September 17, 2020 4:11 AM |
The Spirit of Justice is so hot, Ashcroft put her in a burqa because he hated being photographed in front of her big tits.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | September 17, 2020 4:49 AM |
R157, I like the draping, it's beautifully rendered.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | September 17, 2020 4:55 AM |
[quote]I saw David when I was on vacation years ago; he's much taller than you think he will be. Also, his penis is rather small for his height.
Perhaps Renaissance sculptors were influenced by the Ancient Greek aesthetic described by R5.
Or maybe if the penis was too attention grabbing, viewers would question the sexuality of the artist.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | September 17, 2020 4:55 AM |
Also R157, you're referring to Wolfe's Jacob's Room. Check this out:
by Anonymous | reply 173 | September 17, 2020 4:56 AM |
One thing to remember about David: he's an adolescent (16 in the Bible), so not fully "grown." A great example of Michaelangelo's genius is the size of his hands and feet, showing him to still be in an awkward stage (as awkward as a boy that ripped can be).
by Anonymous | reply 174 | September 17, 2020 5:01 AM |
Dear R173, thank you so much! I remember Virginia Woolf saying SOMEWHERE in her letters, diaries, novels and essays —I've read 75% of them— how she venerated 'the Greek look'.
And I know that people at that time (post-Charles Darwin) were talking about the 'science' of Phrenology and Physiognomy and how it influenced character. And I was trying to remember how the intellectual, unsensous, Virginia Woolf could justify saying that a beautiful face endowed one with a beautiful mind.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | September 17, 2020 5:06 AM |
I cannot believe that none of you queens have suggested this Queen's statue. Where is your solidarity?
by Anonymous | reply 176 | September 17, 2020 6:05 AM |
Nah, this thread is about nude male statues, R176.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | September 17, 2020 6:09 AM |
Rome, Italy: Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II - The Vittoriano - sculpture 'La Forza', by Augusto Rivalta
by Anonymous | reply 178 | September 17, 2020 6:20 AM |
Ooh lovely, R178. Thanks.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | September 17, 2020 6:30 AM |
Robert Graham (American sculptor, 1938-2008): Male athlete - part of Olympic Gateway (1984), Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
by Anonymous | reply 180 | September 17, 2020 6:31 AM |
Hercules and Cacus by Baccio Bandinelli, Piazza della Signoria, Florence.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | September 17, 2020 6:46 AM |
An Athlete Wrestling with a Python, Sir Frederic Leighton, 1877, Tate Britain
by Anonymous | reply 183 | September 17, 2020 7:09 AM |
Progress statue, Victoria Memorial, London
Not nude but attractive.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | September 17, 2020 7:16 AM |
R167 David is HUGE! I love the pics of him getting cleaned because you really get an idea of his size by comparison.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | September 17, 2020 8:58 AM |
[R132]: I used to see AT&T’s “Golden Boy,” a.k.a. “Genius of Electricity, when it was ensconced in the lobby of the AT&T building in Manhattan, on Madison Ave. at 55th St. It was restored and moved there when AT&T built an ostentatious new headquarters uptown, nicknamed the “Chippendale” building.
That statue has always been glorious, and its presentation on Mad. Ave. seemed more like an ancient temple than a lobby. But its life since the 80’s has been as wayward as its parent company, and, after many wanderings, it now resides in Dallas.
Google “AT&T’s Golden Boy Has Had a Tough Life...” for a more comprehensive chronicle of his travels.
There was a time in the U.S. when the classical served the commercial, and some great art was made, much of it by women, particularly sculptors.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | September 17, 2020 10:40 AM |
Why no body hair at all?
by Anonymous | reply 189 | September 17, 2020 3:15 PM |
R184 They don't have to be nude to be hot. "Manufacture", also from the Victoria Memorial, by Sir Thomas Brock, 1911
by Anonymous | reply 190 | September 17, 2020 3:51 PM |
That's ^ a marvelous modern work but the Graham at r180 and the progress statue at r184 don't hold a candle to the classical ones. It seems stylization is the recourse for mediocrity. And forget the kitschy Leighton at r183.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | September 17, 2020 5:01 PM |
This might be Cacus from the Hercules and Cacus statues in Florence mentioned earlier.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | September 18, 2020 5:38 AM |
ATLAS (1937) Lee Lawrie and Rene Paul Chambellan, Rockefeller Center
by Anonymous | reply 196 | September 18, 2020 8:01 PM |
Standing Schist Bodhisattva. Northwest Pakistan, Gandhara, 2nd-3rd century A.D.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | September 19, 2020 5:27 AM |
R196 The Rockefeller Atlas is what I meant by "It seems stylization is the recourse for mediocrity. "
by Anonymous | reply 198 | September 19, 2020 8:05 AM |
Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is stylized and I think it's brilliant.
Isn't that like saying all Impressionist paintings are mediocre because they don't meticulously copy reality?
by Anonymous | reply 199 | September 19, 2020 3:56 PM |
R196 while it conveys strength and beauty is the Art Deco style (and its beautiful In its own way)< it does lack a pent up eroticism that has been noted on the prior pics. So, not mediocre, just different and sanitized for the great unwashed.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | September 19, 2020 4:04 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 201 | September 19, 2020 4:05 PM |
Poland. Sculptures at Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | September 20, 2020 10:08 PM |
Are there Greek sculpture of man to man sex and male love
by Anonymous | reply 203 | September 20, 2020 10:12 PM |
There is the Warren Cup in the British Museum.
There must be paintings on Greek vases.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | September 20, 2020 10:25 PM |
I doubt there are actual Greek sculptures of guys having intercourse.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | September 20, 2020 10:26 PM |
Statue of the Tiber River with Romulus and Remus (Louvre)
by Anonymous | reply 206 | September 20, 2020 10:58 PM |
R204 love that Peeping Thomas. So sodomy was probably more discreet then than we think.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | September 20, 2020 11:03 PM |
I don't know much about homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, R207. I believe it was more acceptable when the two males were not social equals, ie sex between master and slave, sex between an adult male and an underaged boy (ick). As fas as I know, sex between adult males who were both Greek or Roman citizens of equal social standing was more problematic. And being the passive partner was considered more shameful.
I've heard that sex between men and boys was mentioned many times in Greek literature so maybe it wasn't that stigmatized. I hope we're talking about boys 15 years or older, even though that is very creepy.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | September 20, 2020 11:27 PM |
Farnese Bull - National Archaeological Museum in Naples
The sculpture represents the myth of Dirce first wife of Lykos, King of Thebes. She was tied to a wild bull by Amphion and Zethus, the sons of Antiope, who wanted to punish Dirce for the ill-treatment inflicted on their mother.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | September 20, 2020 11:42 PM |
[quote] If I went to the Louvre I'd be hard pressed to restrain myself from clutching their thighs and caressing their smooth buttocks.
Years ago I visited the Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome, dedicated to nothing but Greek and Roman statues; one of the rooms was actually free of cameras and since I was one of the very few visitors around I spent a few minutes feeling the statues up. And yes, it felt fucking amazing to touch something so old and beautiful. I touched a couple of those cute cocklets too. But here's something that museums rarely tell you - the dicks on these ancient statues are rarely the original ones. Most of the statues were discovered "castrated" so many of the penises we see today were added only in the Renaissance era.
Anyway, here's my contribution to the thread: the hot fascist statue from Rome's EUR district.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | September 21, 2020 12:22 AM |
The Hermes of Praxiteles excited me when I was a teen. Even though some parts are broken off, it was still exciting to look at it.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | September 21, 2020 12:37 AM |
[quote]Are there Greek sculpture of man to man sex and male love
Of course, there are numerous statues of Antinous, Hadrian's lover, by himself.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | September 21, 2020 1:07 AM |
R51 I agree that Perseus is a standout at the NY Met. However it's a replica of Canova's famed marble of Perseus in the Vatican
by Anonymous | reply 213 | September 21, 2020 1:40 AM |
I didn't mean statues like of Antinous by himself. I meant of two or more men with a homosexual theme. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | September 21, 2020 1:42 AM |
No, I understood what you meant R214. I couldn't think of any examples.
This article from "The Advocate" might be worth looking at. I guess Nisus and Euryalus (though Virgil described their love as "pious"), Orestes and Pylades, and Harmodius and Aristogeiton fit the bill. Love all these ancient Greek or Roman names.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | September 21, 2020 3:42 AM |
Probably no statues of men having sex. The ancients would rather look at Pan having sex with a female goat, like the statue that was unearthed in Herculaneum.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | September 21, 2020 3:54 AM |
Great choice, R210. Thanks.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | September 21, 2020 3:57 AM |
Haven't you people ever seen A Clockwork Orange before?
Check and mate, my tasteful friend.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | September 21, 2020 4:59 AM |
Nah. That just looks like an oversized sex toy. No creativity there.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | September 21, 2020 5:03 AM |
Cupid and Mars by Mathieu Kessels, Chatsworth House
by Anonymous | reply 220 | September 21, 2020 6:28 AM |
R208 the boys you’re talking about being referenced are more “youths” who were any young male under 25 (I think?) who couldn’t yet grow a full beard or practice citizenship. so while this group certainly included teens under 18 (an age of insignificance at the time), it did not include pre-adolescents. Although I believe a slave child was fair game, and surely pedophilia was practiced then as it always has been, it was not something that was approved by society or lauded in poetry and epics. I’m a casual historian so I’m sure a real expert will chime in where I’m wrong, but that’s even better.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | September 21, 2020 11:53 AM |
The Boxer reminds me of men like Phil Baroni ...
by Anonymous | reply 224 | September 21, 2020 12:18 PM |
Satyr as a leg of a bronze tripod found in Pompey.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | September 21, 2020 12:32 PM |
Judging from the interviewer's reaction at R224, he must be straight. Funny how weird straight guys are about seeing another guy's dick. After all, when straight guys shower together, they act like seeing another guy naked is nothing.
Of course, if I was interviewing Baroni, I'd be staring the whole time his dick was out.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | September 21, 2020 6:30 PM |
He takes steroids so he must have tiny nuts.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | September 21, 2020 6:32 PM |
Fragmentary colossal head of a youth, Greek, 2nd century BC at the Met
by Anonymous | reply 230 | September 22, 2020 7:26 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 232 | September 22, 2020 7:31 AM |
Saint Michael the Archangel defeating Satan, bronze statue at St. Michael's Church, Hamburg, Germany
by Anonymous | reply 233 | September 23, 2020 2:37 PM |
Great choice, R233.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | September 23, 2020 4:09 PM |
Love the dramatic Baroque statues. Thanks, R235.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | September 23, 2020 5:07 PM |
Satyres en Atlante, Louvre
Not particularly hot. More humorous because they look like they're staring at their penises. Statues from 2nd century ancient Rome. I assume they were supporting something.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | September 25, 2020 3:48 AM |
Hercules and Cerberus, Hofburg Palace, Vienna
by Anonymous | reply 238 | September 25, 2020 3:59 PM |
Atlantes, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
by Anonymous | reply 241 | September 26, 2020 6:44 PM |
R222 wrote:
[quote]R208 the boys you’re talking about being referenced are more “youths” who were any young male under 25 (I think?) who couldn’t yet grow a full beard or practice citizenship. so while this group certainly included teens under 18 (an age of insignificance at the time), it did not include pre-adolescents. Although I believe a slave child was fair game, and surely pedophilia was practiced then as it always has been, it was not something that was approved by society or lauded in poetry and epics. I’m a casual historian so I’m sure a real expert will chime in where I’m wrong, but that’s even better
I read the article about homosexuality in Ancient Greece on wikipedia and the boys who had sexual relationships with adult men were commonly between the ages of 12 and 21. Yikes. The lower end of the age range is pretty disturbing. Maybe some of it was intercrural sex, ie. putting the penis between the partner's thighs, instead of actual penetration.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | September 26, 2020 10:11 PM |
What about lady statue? Is very Best in my point of view.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | September 26, 2020 11:26 PM |
Melania's never looked hotter.
by Anonymous | reply 245 | September 27, 2020 12:42 AM |
Hercules and Achelous by François-Joseph Bosio. Louvre
by Anonymous | reply 246 | September 27, 2020 1:34 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 247 | October 1, 2020 3:31 PM |
One of the few excellent works by Arno Breker - "Berufung"
by Anonymous | reply 248 | October 1, 2020 3:37 PM |
I do like that, R248.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | October 1, 2020 3:41 PM |
Abe looks a bit like a bored teenager from the 1960s.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | October 1, 2020 7:43 PM |
Jason and the golden fleece by Bertel Thorvaldsen, at Thorvaldsen´s Museum, Copenhagen
by Anonymous | reply 254 | October 2, 2020 7:03 AM |
The grace, the lines, the mushroom, the yeti pubes...
by Anonymous | reply 256 | October 4, 2020 3:00 AM |
Nothing hotter than Pazuzu.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | October 4, 2020 3:23 AM |
Four Captives, from the pedestal of the equestrian statue of Henry IV - by Pierre de Francheville, known as Pietro Francavilla
These four life-size bronze statues once stood in the four corners of the pedestal of the equestrian statue of King Henry IV, erected on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Late Mannerist style.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | October 4, 2020 6:53 PM |
Do large statues freak anyone else out? For some reason for a split second I think they might become animate. Probably those damned greek gods at Caesars Palace mall caused this...
by Anonymous | reply 259 | October 4, 2020 8:10 PM |
Greek marble statue of Marcellus, nephew of Octavius
by Anonymous | reply 260 | October 5, 2020 6:01 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 261 | October 5, 2020 7:11 AM |
Statue of Ares at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | October 5, 2020 11:12 PM |
OK, we get it, Hadrian was a big ole ‘Mo!
by Anonymous | reply 264 | October 5, 2020 11:16 PM |
Lol Hadrian and his tight young men
by Anonymous | reply 265 | October 5, 2020 11:23 PM |
Douglas Tilden's monument to mechanical workers, San Francisco.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | November 15, 2020 11:34 PM |
Huh. Posting the same picture from different devices. Interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 271 | November 16, 2020 1:04 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 274 | November 20, 2020 5:29 PM |
Torso of a Bodhisattva, ca 5th century. The Met
by Anonymous | reply 275 | November 23, 2020 2:52 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 276 | November 23, 2020 2:55 AM |
The Bodhisattva has a lot of obvious Greek influence (e.g. from the Meleager type at R266), but frustratingly is way less naked. Prude!
by Anonymous | reply 277 | November 23, 2020 12:45 PM |
True but it's still erotic.
by Anonymous | reply 278 | November 23, 2020 6:01 PM |
Imagine at the height of summer how scorching this aluminum statue of Andy Warhol must be, you would get at least 3rd degree burns from touching it at early afternoon.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | March 3, 2021 8:21 AM |
Oh R280, you punster.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | March 3, 2021 6:24 PM |
[quote]I doubt there are actual Greek sculptures of guys having intercourse.
In all probability there were, R205. They would have been at least as common as the depictions on ancient Greek pottery. But the statuary was far less likely to survive the centuries of Christian and Muslim iconoclasm. Even of the male statuary that has survived, nearly all of the penises have been knocked off of them. This wasn't accidental, but deliberate. And statuary actually depicting sex acts would have been hammered to pieces.
by Anonymous | reply 282 | March 3, 2021 7:11 PM |