Was Michelangelo gay?

Answer 1

The meaning of gay, 500 years ago was a lil different than the today's stuff. hahaha dont laugh. Michelangelo was gay. It was both a physical and cultural choice, as his ideals were the classic sculptors of the ancient Greece ( there having young boys as pupils and lovers was a standard thing).
There are no documents confirming it, but some papers reading of expenses he made for a painter (guy) in Florence.
Otherwise, its enough you look at his male statues, they re totally different from other master sculptors' of the same time.
Details are underlined with a certain passion...and..going to females..he only sculpted figures of mothers.
Maybe a psychologist will help ya better there. Or a gay.

Answer 2

Was Michelangelo Gay

Answer 3

I am like, 10 years late to the party. But for anyone googling: Yes, or rather, he was attracted towards men. If he was gay, his attractions were most likely latent. A solid argument could also be made towards him falling on the asexuality spectrum by today s standards. But his romantic and aesthetic interests definitively pointed towards the masculine. The women he painted and sculpted were decidedly muscular, with breasts added more as an afterthought, like oranges taped to their chests... which contrasted pretty heavily with the style of other painters of the period. Michelangelo s sculptures of men echo across history for their defined, beautiful physique, and accentuated musculature.

He also wrote several love poems to Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, a young nobleman.

The notion expressed by some of the other people answering,"oh it sounds gay now, it wasn t back then" is incorrect. Even at the time, everyone went "oh damn this is pretty gay..." How do we know this? because after Michelangelo died, Michelangelo s grandnephew went through it and changed all of the.... incriminating pronouns to feminine ones, as to hide Michelangelo s... "reverence" to the masculine form.

But Michelangelo was a deeply religious man, and Catholicism was (and still is) big in Italy. So there s not any evidence that he ever had any physical relationships with the objects of his affections, and there were a few (to be fair, in a society that could hang you for sodomy, it would make sense to keep this discreet. Take that as you will). (in contrast to Leonardo da Vinci, who, hoooo boy, he has a bit of a paper trail)

Answer 4

and cultureMichelangelo would be in total shock that people 500 years in the future would think he was gay. This is all recent history just like Jesus being married. Michelangelo wrote some sonnets that come across as gay in 2015 but they would not be considered gay by the standards of 1475. We in the US live in a post puritian/victorian society where any same sex affection in consider homosexual. That was not the case 500 years ago or even 200 years ago especially in southern Europian culture. He may have been gay or straight we do not know, but we do know millions of stupid Americans have no knowledge of souther Europian history or culture especially from 500+ years ago plus we now live in a highly political society where everything has become political.

Answer 5

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Was Michelangelo gay?

Answer 6

It's hard to tell, seeing how it's been a couple hundred years since he's existed. Back then, males did things that are considered gay in today's society-like going to an opera with other men or sketching a nude man. What Michelangelo did is considered gay today, but back then, it was completely normal.

Answer 7

I believe he was One of the De Medicci women of the period was in love with him, but he never returned the feeling. I believe from reading a couple of books on his life , that he felt tortured by it. The young man who posed for the "David" was supposed to be living with him at the time.

Answer 8

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Yes, and it influenced his concepts of the human body, so anyone who thinks its irrelevant is talking twaddle- sometimes an artist's sexuality shapes his/ her work, so cannot be overlooked

Answer 9

I'm a bit late to the party, but yes michaelangelo was gay. He even had a "relationship" with a man (he said that the man had uncomparable beauty).

Answer 10

Maybe. We don't really have any way of finding out, but there have been rumors forever, and possibly historic accounts of it.