Friday, October 31, 2025

Julien de Parme, 'Love Standing' (1762)
Dmytro Komissarenko, Ostrovskyi in Narcissus Dreams (2017)
Vincenzo de Rossi, Hercules and Diomedes (1560)
 
This statue, currently in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, was commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici as one of twelve (of which seven were completed) showing the Labours of Hercules.

Diomedes is obviously losing, because he's trying to pull Hercules's dick off. (Either that or he's trying to make peace by giving him a hand-job.)

And the demigod's tool looks unhappily small - and maybe not altogether intact!
targphoto, 'A P O L L O'
(Outfit designed by the artist, made by Petr Kalouda)

The model is of course David Čiháček, and his membrum virile is in fact very beautiful, so it's a pity I couldn't find an uncensored version of this.
ai.ryvius, 'Daedalus and Icarus'
Mikel Marton, 'Brett, 18'

According to the artist, this lovely young man just got excited by the experience of being snapped in the altogether.

And so something simple and innocent also became something beautiful and holy.

You'd have thought that a guy with a tattoo like this one on his back would be reasonably easy to identify, but in actual fact I have no idea who he is.
Sergei Anikin (aka Musyupick), 'Portrait of a guy with flowers art nouveau'
(aka 'A boy pressing the delicate petals of fragrant lilies to his cheek')
Connor Woods
Arno Breker, Der Sieger (1939)
Luisl4nd, 'He eating a flower uwu'
Nicolas Cazard'Lego time'
Victor Gadino, Mars (2022)





Sasha Olsen, Petr Pak, for Yummy Magazine
Emil Sutor, 'Germanische Familie' (1935) Klinik Heidelberg (Holz)

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Gaston Goor
Cum ob hanc offensam praeclusissem mihi aditum, quem feceram, iterum ad licentiam redii. Interpositis enim paucis diebus, cum similis casus nos in eandem fortunam rettulisset, ut intellexi stertere patrem, rogare coepi ephebum, ut reverteretur in gratiam mecum, id est ut pateretur satis fieri sibi, et cetera quae libido distenta dictat.

This breach of my word closed against me the approach I had made; but I found my chance again. For not many days after, another festival brought us into the same state as before. When I heard the father snoring, I proceeded to beg the boy to be friends again, that he would let me satisfy him, and the sort of things that love delayed make you say. 
[Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 87]
Marwane Pallas

Glass cameo cup fragment (Roman1st half of 1st century AD, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 166)

Translucent purple with opaque white overlay.

Plain vertical rim with rounded lip; convex-curving side, turned in towards round bottom.

Decoration in relief on exterior: a symplegma scene of a kneeling naked man with head turned downwards behind a woman, also naked but with an anklet on her right leg; the man's left hand rests on her back and his right arm reaches back for support to a pile of cushions on the end of the low bed or couch, which is covered with linen; he is clean shaven and has short wavy hair; suspended above the lovers is a garland tied at the top with a bow; immediately below the bed is a broad, horizontal ground line, with a second parallel line below around base.

In two conjoining fragments; pinprick bubbles in body; on body, pitting, dulling and deep weathering, with some iridescence; on decoration, some pitting and creamy brown weathering. Horizontal grinding marks on interior.

Roman decorative arts include subjects that are of an explicit sexual nature. Scenes of lovemaking appear on everyday objects such as pottery and terracotta lamps, but they are also featured on luxury items such as silver and, as here, on cameo glass drinking cups.
John Light as Oberon and Matthew Tennyson as Puck in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Dominic Dromgoole at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. (Photo by robbie jack/Corbis via Getty Images)
Oleh Stetsyuk, Eros. Submersion

[H/T: Fitness and Fresh Air (2023/237)]

Jules-Élie Delaunay, The Flute Lesson (1858)

This could almost be the faun Marsyas teaching Olympus.
Cernunnos Fire Ceremony, Greenwich, NY

Apollo and Hyacinthus


David Čiháček