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frualeydis ([personal profile] frualeydis) wrote2011-02-24 12:18 pm
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Bums and penises

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"

[identity profile] operafantomet.livejournal.com 2011-02-24 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] frualeydis.livejournal.com 2011-02-24 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear.

/Eva

[identity profile] armillary.livejournal.com 2011-02-24 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Now tell me you wouldn't have loved that as a wedding gift...

[identity profile] frualeydis.livejournal.com 2011-02-24 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I would have died.

/Eva

[identity profile] jillwheezul.livejournal.com 2011-02-25 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Laughing I bet :)

[identity profile] dame-eleanor.livejournal.com 2011-02-25 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
What an odd picture. The face does not look as though it belongs to the body.