Homosexuality (pre-modern)

English: For a sorted view of homosexuality in non-Western culture look at Homosexuality (non-Western). - See also: LGBT activists for portraits of LGBT activists.

Italiano: Per una galleria ordinata cronologicamente sull'omosessualità al di fuori della cultura Occidentale si veda Homosexuality (non-Western). - Si veda anche: LGBT activists, per una galleria d'immagini di militanti LGBT.

English: For an unsorted view look at Category:LGBT as well as at Category:Gay pride.

Italiano: Per un elenco d'immagini non ordinate cronologicamente si veda la Category:LGBT, come pure Category:Gay pride.

English: For more images related to female homosexuals, see Lesbian history.

Ancient Greece / Grèce ancienne / Grecia antica

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  Greek poet Anacreon (ca. 550 BC – ca. 464 BC). Bust in the Louvre museum.
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  Greek Philosopher Plato (ca. 427-347 BCE).
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  Sappho of Lesbos, depicted here in a 1904 painting by John William Godward, gave the term lesbian the connotation of erotic desire between women.
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  Symposium scene. Fresco from a tomb in Paestum (Italy).
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  Symposium scene. Fresco from a tomb in Paestum (Italy).
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  Courtship scene,
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  Zeus rape Ganymedes
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  Young man fondles another
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  Pentesilea Painter, Zeus abducting Ganymede. Ferrara, Spina museum.
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  Ganymede with cockerel and hoop. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
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  Same-sex erotic scene - Louvre F85bis.
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  Same-sex courtship. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
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  Courtship gift. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
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  Man kissing a boy. Briseis Painter. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
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  Pederastic courtship.
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  Satyr orgy
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  Pederastic courtship.
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  Tritone e Teseo. Rilievo da Milo, 470-460 a.C.
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  The god Zephyrus and the youth Hyacinthus
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  Hyacinthus and Zephyrus
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  pederast couple
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  Greek poet Anacreon with his lover.
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  Book (2002)
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  Late Hellenistic agate gemstone showing two young men in bed, both sporting erections. Poem above calls on the reader to go enjoy life 1st century BCE

Etruscans / Etrusques / Etruschi

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  Heracles and Hylas. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.
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  Heracles, Love and Iolaus. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.
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  Heracles, Love and Iolaus. Cista Ficoroni, ca. 340 b.C.
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  Etruscan vase - Anal intercourse between two men
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  Anal sex between two males. The figure on the left is playing with a hoop. Amphora. Etruscan. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. 5th century BCE
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  Etruscan fresco - Males having sex.

Ancient Rome / Rome ancienne / Roma antica

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  Hercules and Iolaus. Roman mosaic.
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  Pan and Daphnis. Object found at Pompeii.
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  Inscription from Pompeii.
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  Poem from Pompeii.
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  Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.
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  Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.
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  Emperor Hadrian, on a coin.
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  Emperor Hadrian. - L'imperatore Adriano, amante di Antinoo.
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  Polydeukion, here portraied in a votive relief (2nd c. E.E.), was the favorite pupil and beloved of stoic philosopher and millionaire Herodes Atticus.
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  Ganymede - Ganimede (Museo delle Terme, Rome, Italy).
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  The rape of Ganymede (Museo archeologico, Venice, Italy) - Il ratto di Ganimede. Museo archeologico, Venezia.
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  Ditto.
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  Ditto.
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  Silenus and Eros.
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  Roman coin celebrating pederasty
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  Ganymede (Musée du Louvre, Paris, France).
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  Roman emperor Elagabalus, accused by his contemporaries of being an effeminate man and of loving men.
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  L'imperatore romano Elagabalo (203 o 204-222 d.C).
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  L'imperatore romano Elagabalo (203 o 204-222 d.C).
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  Elagabalus, on a coin.
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  Warren Cup, side A
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  Warren Cup, side B
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  Lesbian sex scene. Wall painting. Suburban baths, Pompeii.
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  Bisexual threesome. Wall painting from Pompeii
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  Sex between two males and two females. Wall painting from Pompeii
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  Perfume bottle made of cameo glass showing young men in bed found in the Roman necropolis of Ostippo (Spain).
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  A drawing based on a fragment of an ancient Roman glass vessel. 1826 - 1827
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  A fragment of a glass vessel showing a homosexual scene - circa 15 BCE -1st Century CE
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  A mold for an Arretine bowl that shows sex between a female and a male on the left side. On the right is sex between two males. In the middle is an ithyphallic herm. Vase, mold for Arretine bowl. Late 1st century BCE
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  Sex between two males. Fragment of Arretine bowl. 1st century BCE
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  Sex between two males. Vase, fragment of Arretine bowl. 1 CE to 375 CE
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  Sex between two males. Ceramic bowl. Late 1st century BCE
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  Spintria token. Male lovers on bed on the obverse side of the token. Production date 1stC (probably)

Ancient Rome - Antinous / Rome ancienne - Antinoüs / Roma antica - Antinoo

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Pre-modern non-European Homosexuality / Omosessualità non-Europea premoderna / Homosexualité non-européenne pre-moderne

• See it as: Homosexuality (non-Western).
• Vedila come: Homosexuality (non-Western).
• Voir comme: Homosexuality (non-Western).

Pre-modern Europe - Miscellaneous topics / Europe pre-moderne - Autre / Europa premoderna - Miscellanea

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  Saint Sergius and Bacchus (7th century).
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  Biblical Prince Jonathan and David embrace. Manuscript illustration. La Somme le roy, circa 1300 AD.
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  Zoan-Andrea (1464-1526), Two women. Italian Renaissance engraving.
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  Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.
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  Templars burned at stake (14th century).
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  Templars burned at stake. From the Chronicle of France or of St Denis (14th century?)
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  Templar kissing cleric. Manuscript illustration: Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon, c. 1350.
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  The burning of the knight of Hohenberg with his servant before the walls of Zürich, 1482.
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  Leonardo da Vinci, Anatomy of a male nude (ca. 1510).
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  Leonardo da Vinci, Uomo vitruviano / Vitruvian man.
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  Leonardo da Vinci, Uomo vitruviano / Vitruvian man.
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  Albrecht Dürer, "The Death of Orpheus" (1494). The banner (Orfeus der erst puseran) explains that Orpheus is being killed for being "the first sodomite".
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  Marcantonio Raimondi, Apollo, Giacinto e Amore [1506].
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  Plato and Aristotle as seen by Raphael, circa 1510. Rome, Palazzi vaticani.
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  Benedetto Montagna, Apollo e Ciparisso (1515/20).
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  Jacopo Caraglio (16th century), Apollo and Hyacinthos. Engraving.
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  Idem.
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  Ditto.
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  Virgil Solis, Apollo & Cyparissus (1563).
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  Virgil Solis, Apollo & Hyacinthus (1563).
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  Giulio Romano, Apollo e Ciparisso (1596) / Apollo and Cyparissus, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
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  Gender masquerade as a dramatic device was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries
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  Bathers at San Niccolò, Florence.
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  Two Florentines kiss. Florence, Uffizi.
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  Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Amore vincitore.
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  Thomas Arthus, Les hermaphrodites, 1605.
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  Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Davide e Golia.
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  Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Davide (1605/6 ca.).
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  Guido Reni, Davide (1606 ca.).
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  Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), Apollo e Ciparisso (1606).
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  Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), Apollo e Giacinto (1606).
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  Tanzio da Varallo (1575-1633), Davide e Golia, ca. 1625.
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  Carlo Cesio 1626 - 1686), Apollo e Giacinto [1675].
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  Lesbianism and hermaphroditism, depicted here in an engraving circa 1690, were very similar concepts during the Renaissance.
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  Apollo & Cyparissus (1702).
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  Apollo and Cyparissus. Engraving by Bauer, 1703.
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  Apollo and Hyacinthus. Engraving by Bauer, 1703.
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  Gottfried Bernhard Göz (1707-1774): King Saul embraces David.
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  Pan and Syrinx by François Boucher (1759)
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  Hetero and homosexual group sex in a 18th century engraving.

Pre-modern Europe - Sodom and Gomorrha / Europe pre-moderne - Sodome et Gomorrhe / Europa premoderna - Sodoma e Gomorra

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Pre-modern Europe - Zeus and Ganymede / Europe pre-moderne - Zeus et Ganymède / Europa premoderna - Zeus e Ganimede

Images up to 1800 ca.

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Pre-modern Europe - Portraits - Men / Europe pre-moderne - Portraits - Hommes/ Europa premoderna - Ritratti - Uomini

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  Emperor Hadrian. Modern bust.
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  Grave of Edward II of England (1284-1327) in York.
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  King Edward II of England (1284-1327), in a 17th century engraving.
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  1902 ideal portrait of Edward II.
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  Władysław III - King of Poland and Hungary.
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  François Clouet, Henri III de France, duc d'Anjou (1570).
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  Henri III of France (1551-1589).
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  François Quesnel, Henry III of France.
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  Francesco de' Bracci's grave (he died 16) designed by his lover Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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  Francesco de' Bracci's grave.
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  Francesco de' Bracci's grave.
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  Prospero Farinacci (1554-1618). Ministro della giustizia papale, fu processato per sodomia omosessuale.
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  Daniel Dumonstier, Louis XIII (1617). French king Louis 13th had several male lovers, among them, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars (1620 -1642)
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  Peter Paul Rubens, Louis XIII (1622/1625).
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  Louis XIII et le cardinal de Richelieu, victorieux devant La Rochelle.
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  French king Louis XIII (1601–1643).
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  John Atherton - The hanging of a bishop, from The life and death of John Atherton. Anonymous pamphlet, 1641.
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  en:John Atherton (1598-1640) & John Childe (16 -1640), 1641.
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy (aka Eugen von Savoyen), (1663-1736).
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy.
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy.
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy.
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  Prince Eugène of Savoy.
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  Eugenio di Savoia.
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  Eugenio di Savoia nel momumento di Anton Dominik Fernkorn a Vienna (1865).
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  Eugenio di Savoia.
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  Eugenio di Savoia.
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  Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1755.
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  Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1768.
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  Frontispice of Les enfants de Sodome à l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris 1790.

Pre-modern Europe - Portraits - Women / Europe pre-moderne - Portraits - Femmes / Europa premoderna - Ritratti - Donne

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  Colossal head of Sappho, Istanbul. 2nd century aD.
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  Sébastien Bourdon (±1653): Ebba Sparre (1626-1662) lady-in-waiting to and intimate companion of Sweden's Queen Christina
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  Aphra Behn by Peter Lely ca. 1670
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  Archduchess Marie Christine
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  Princess Isabella of Parma

Modern & contemporary era / Age moderne et contemporaire / Età moderna e contemporanea

English: This gallery continues (modern & contemporary, from 1800 ca. to date) at: Homosexuality. (The file had to be split due to its excessive size).

Italiano: Questa galleria prosegue (età moderna e contemporanea, dal 1800 ca. ad oggi) nella galleria: Homosexuality. (Il file è stato suddiviso a causa delle dimensioni eccessive).