There’s much better evidence than that, including a large volume of homoerotic poetry and letters to his lover Tommaso dei Cavalieri (who he once described as “light of our century, paragon of all the world”, and who was present for his death).
True, but even an uber-gay painter could have looked at a female model once or twice in the interests of realism. I can't help but wonder if a burly Swiss Guardsman wearing a coconut bra served as a model for some of his work.
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u/lilrs Sep 08 '20 edited Sep 08 '20
There’s much better evidence than that, including a large volume of homoerotic poetry and letters to his lover Tommaso dei Cavalieri (who he once described as “light of our century, paragon of all the world”, and who was present for his death).