#classical nudes

A Wilhelm von Gloeden photograph of luminous beauty, one flower-adorned youth gazes upon a companion with a vase of traditional design, nothing of the modern era intruding to distract from the Arcadian ideal.

A pity this picture by von Gloeden is so small, I’ve tried to find a larger copy but this will have to suffice.

Gracefully posed and charming eroticism at the turn of the last century - titled The Seduction, by Vincenzo Galdi.

Oh, do not draw upon the archaeology, sir! Luckily for all those who detest the desecration of ancient sites, this is a staged scene - the graffiti almost as old as the wall it marks. Part of Guglielmo Plüschow’s fine photoshoot in Pompeii, his models acting out scenes from the everyday lives of those who made their homes here so many centuries before.

A fine image by Guglielmo Plüschow, once more using the ruins of classical  Rome as the ideal backdrop to timeless male beauty - what an exquisitely formed bottom, perfectly peachy-round and smooth!

I had just begun to consider what I might post to mark our reaching the pleasantly amusing total of 3,333 followers, when there happened a veritable flood of new attention overnight, and I find we now sit at a quite remarkable 3,435 already! So now my intended theme of trio photographs is a little inaccurately placed. Welcome, new readers, nonetheless!

 A different set of artists’ reference photographs, donated by Yanni - I’ve featured these photographic compilations before, though these seem to be mostly new poses with only the upper right having appeared on a previous sheet.

Our familiar Roman Sandal Boys again. At first glance I was somewhat confused by the arrangement of arms here as I took both raised hands as belonging to the boy on the right - giving him an unusually flexible forearm, and his companion an alarmingly disembodied hand upon his shoulder! 

What a beautiful classically-inspired scene from von Gloeden; quite typical of his work, and quite lovely!

Two fine young men pose nude (but for the pair of Roman sandals), in the cloister of the abandoned San Domenico monastery, 1902. We have seen the stunning model on the left before, here.

Photographed by Vincenzo Galdi at the end of the 19th century, this portrait in classical style features an early appearance - indeed perhaps the very first! - by a fine young man who would soon find his fame in far more explicit and erotic images; we know him as Il Serpente.