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"Louis Crompton traces Church-inspired mutilation, torture, and burning of "sodomites" in sixth-century Byzantium, medieval France, Renaissance Italy, and in Spain under the Inquisition. But Protestant authorities were equally committed to the execution of homosexuals in the Netherlands, Calvin's Geneva, and Georgian England. The root cause was religious superstition, abetted by political ambition and sheer greed. Yet from this cauldron of fears and desires, homoerotic themes surfaced in the art of the Renaissance masters -- Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Sodoma, Cellini, and Caravaggio -- often intertwined with Christian motifs." -From the Publisher
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
067401197X
Louis Crompton
2003 Harvard University Press
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