Balancing Act, Dubrovnik, Croatia. by Jim Tardio

French boy

Oriano Nicolau, 'In white'

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, The Sorcerer’s Slave (1877)

See the TURTLE of enormous girth!
On his shell he holds the earth.
His thought is slow but always kind;
he holds us all within his mind.
On his back all vows are made;
he sees the truth but mayn't aid.
He loves the land and loves the sea,
And even loves a child like me.

19th Century French School. Naked Boys in a River Landscape, playing around a Classical Urn

Youth camp, Berlin, 1940

Frederic, Lord Leighton, 'Weaving the Wreath'

Conor Walton, Phaethon

Bror Gustaf Hillgren, 'Nude Boy at the Beach' (1931)

Bror Gustaf Hillgren was a Swedish opera singer and actor. He was known for his work in the arts, but there is limited public information available regarding his personal life, including his sexual orientation.

punchout5, 'Boy feet reading book'

António Soares dos Reis, Desterrado (The Exile) (1872)

Carl Mortensen, 'Before the Contest'

Jules Jean Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, 'Eros, Cupid' (1870)