Michelangel-oh!
The famous Florentine Michelangelo, for whom the term "Renaissance Man" practically could have been invented, was infatuated with painting and sculpting the male form. But as we now know, he loved to do other things to them too.
He liked to write poems about them. (What did you think I meant?)
On Thursday, a new exhibit of Michelangelo's drawings taken from virtually his entire career opens at the British Museum in London.
So the timing was right for the UK's superb Gay Times magazine to run a spread of photos inspired by some of those 500-year-old images, courtesy of male model "Petr."
He seems a little "softer" than what we're used to in American magazines. But to me, that only adds to the sexiness. Or maybe I was just in shock from seeing Gay Times in Germany surrounded by several other mainstream publications with naked ladies on the cover.
What follows after the jump is NSFW, unless your boss likes it when you look at man-ass ...
Click to enlarge. (The images, silly goose!)
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That's the kind of ass that makes me say "Yes, please" ...but this guy is a little pretty for Mikey. His men (and women, with those little stuck-on breasts) were so much beefier, perhaps older and so much more squared off and functional/tested looking...as the drawings show.
I think this was more or less an excuse for the photographer/editor to get this attractive--though not particularly Michaelangelo-esque--guy naked.
Posted by: Jack Malebranche | March 21, 2006 at 03:14 PM
I imagined you being into a bit more beef in your men as well Jack. i'm pleasantly shocked to find that we have similar tastes occassionally.
Petr. Even the name has a chiseled sex appeal to it.
Posted by: Aatom | March 21, 2006 at 04:37 PM
I imagined you being into a bit more beef in your men as well Jack.
I have a wide ranging appreciation for the myriad ways that masculinity manifests itself in men of all shapes and sizes.
Posted by: Jack Malebranche | March 21, 2006 at 04:49 PM
Mmph mmph mmph. I want one of those.
Posted by: Robbie | March 21, 2006 at 05:04 PM
Just to add, this is far more attractive than the usual gay fare in American magazines. When men are so chiseled that it seems almost like an anatomy lesson, I get skeeved out. And ribs? Ribs are for BBQs, people.
Show me a buff guy with that edge of softness to him like Petr here, and mmph mmph mmph. Num nums.
Posted by: Robbie | March 21, 2006 at 05:38 PM
Soft-bottomed boys .. something to get your teeth into and far and away more desirable than those buffed buns that a hypodermic needle would bounce off! I'm in 100% agreement with Robbie "Show me a buff guy with that edge of softness to him like Petr here, and mmph mmph mmph. Num nums."
Posted by: mallee | March 21, 2006 at 10:35 PM
Show me a buff guy with that edge of softness to him like Petr here
Fine, fine! I'll post photos of myself. Sheesh.
Seriously, what a very attractive man.
Posted by: Patrick | March 21, 2006 at 10:51 PM
Tch, I said you were cute. No one here would object =)
Posted by: Robbie | March 21, 2006 at 10:59 PM
Post Patrick! Post!
Posted by: Queer Conservative | March 21, 2006 at 11:56 PM
I have not yet reached my goal. :-)
Posted by: Patrick | March 22, 2006 at 12:42 AM
Oh c'mon, Patrick....if I can post such things not once, not twice, but three times, surely you can put a few bits of your eye-candy self up.
Posted by: North Dallas Thirty | March 22, 2006 at 02:40 AM
Not on yer life, cowboy.
Posted by: Patrick | March 22, 2006 at 03:46 AM
I was in Florence last year, and for the first time in my life, saw The David in person. It's at the end on a long hall, and has a skylight directly over it.
It's absolutely amazing.
Sadly, what they say about "big hands", wasn't true for the model:(
Posted by: HANK | March 22, 2006 at 12:03 PM
Sadly, what they say about "big hands", wasn't true for the model:(
In his defense, maybe he was a grower--not a shower.
Posted by: Jack Malebranche | March 22, 2006 at 03:47 PM
Uh-Oh. Little dick huh?
Posted by: HANK | March 23, 2006 at 12:54 AM
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Posted by: Jack Malebranche | March 23, 2006 at 01:34 AM
Well, I'll be out of town and won't be able to respond for a few days, so if that was supposed to imply something bitchy in response to my light hearted comment...
...as Jack Nicholson said in "The Witches of Eastwick,"...
...I'm somewhere in the middle myself.
Posted by: Jack Malebranche | March 23, 2006 at 02:26 AM
Jack, my guess is that Hank wasn't taking a shot at you, he was talking about David's notoriously small schwanz.
Posted by: Malcontent | March 23, 2006 at 08:17 AM
Or maybe I'm wrong. :-D
Posted by: Malcontent | March 23, 2006 at 08:20 AM
Yeah, that was my impression from his first comment--hence my original joke. But the second one seemed a little cunty. OK...NOW I am out of town.
Posted by: Jack Malebranche | March 23, 2006 at 11:58 AM
The short haired euroboy looks more like a naughty boy just released from the military or correctional institution than the nice head of hair Michelangelo and Roman Fine Art Boys have been classically portrayed with.
Posted by: Larry | March 23, 2006 at 11:20 PM
Loooooooves me some softness.
Posted by: Jordan | March 25, 2006 at 06:52 PM
These photos raise an interesting question of, who were Michelangelo's models anyway, for example, for the Sistine Chalpel? If he could not find an ideal figure, he could always make one, of course (from clay or wax). I wrote a discussion of Michelangelo's models. My main point is that his talents as a sculptor would allow him create whatever ideal form he wanted.
Posted by: Karl Zipser | April 08, 2006 at 04:14 PM