Bums and penises

[frualeydis]

I am currently looking for good period pictures of men's bums and codpieces. Preferrably something free for use, like woodcuts.

ETA: I do not recommend image googling the word "codpiece"

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[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

Only 16th century? I had a 15th century manuscript image of a torturer in rather see-through underpants scratching his bum for my medieval underwear lecture - I can probably find it online, although I'm not sure it would be free to use for publication.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I'd LOVE that. Not for the article, but anyway.

/Eva

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

Here you go: Fouquet's The martyrdom of St Apollonia.

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

I dear not google "codpiece" for fear of seeing a picture of Cameo.

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of Italian picture references for cod pieces, undies and the likes. Here's the most interesting ones. In the links, the name of the artist is written towards the end, along with year/decade, and eventual clues on title and/or location.

Red breeches, doublet and cod piece under black overgarment:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/menlombardy/moroni1559soldiermadrid.jpg

Cod piece o'hoy!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/menlombardy/moroni1565antnavageromilan.jpg

Not the bum as such, but... (A Fasolo fresco from Villa Caldogno near Vicenza, Italy)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia2/detail2.jpg

Rare portrait of a man in shirt and breeches (from Villa Chiericati in Vicenza):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia2/chiericati9.jpg

Another cod piece o'hoy:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/menemiliaromagna/parmagianinopiermariarossi1prado.jpg

From Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/mentuscany/coassone15thctrouserscopenhagen.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/copenhagen/museum2.jpg

Lots of undies here...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/mentuscany/macchietti1570spalazzovecchio.jpg

Farmers working in the field, from the Torre Aquila in Trent, Italy:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/temporary/buonconsigliotrent1spring.jpg

From Piero della Francesca's "Legend of the true cross" (I mislabeled it):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/siena/1440shospitalsiena8.jpg

From the former hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, Italy:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/siena/1440shospitalsiena6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/siena/1440shospitalsiena3.jpg

From Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara, Italy:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/ferrara/schifanoia1470ferrara2.jpg

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

PS - I've taken those from Copenhagen, you're free to use those. As for the others, they're from various art books.

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

Love the placement of the sword in the first one.

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Subtle is not the word I was looking for... And there's always my hero Cosimo I de' Medici. He gave a rather interesting painting as a wedding gift to his bride. Himself as Orpheus, on his way to rescue his lost love in the underworld, facing the three headed beast Cerberus:

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/52029.html
http://www.sandstead.com/images/philadelphia/philadelphia_museum_of_art/BRONZINO_Portrait_of_Duke_Cosimo_I_de_Medici_as_Orpheus_c1538-40_PMA_source_sandstead_d2h_.jpg

The placement of his bow and the way his nipple is totally randomly accentuated is quite... amusing.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

/Eva

[armillary.livejournal.com]

Now tell me you wouldn't have loved that as a wedding gift...

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I would have died.

/Eva

[jillwheezul.livejournal.com]

Laughing I bet :)

[dame-eleanor.livejournal.com]

What an odd picture. The face does not look as though it belongs to the body.

[dame-eleanor.livejournal.com]

"Is this a dagger I see before me...?" Hurr....pretty saxxy stuff there! There is something showing in the "Legend of the True Cross"...ummm. Nuts, anyone?

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

Those links are a total Renaissance sausage festival. It's actually rather fascinating how sexualized some of that clothing is in that time period.